iphone - How to create UILabel with clickable first word

Question

I want to create label in iOS, can anyone help me to make the first word of the label's text bold and clickable. The label displays username and its comment and the first word is always the username. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I suppose more elegant solution will be using TTTAttributedString or similar.

Example:

Output:

2013-03-10 07:16:54.429 ClickableUILabel-SO[4770:c07] UserName clicked
Address:    {
    comment = "Your comment.";
    userName = user2126537;
}
2013-03-10 07:16:55.460 ClickableUILabel-SO[4770:c07] UserName clicked
Address:    {
    comment = "Another comment.";
    userName = nsgulliver;
}

Key point:

...

NSRange userNameRange = [text rangeOfString: userName];

...

label.delegate = self;
[label addLinkToAddress: @{
           @"userName" : userName,
            @"comment" : comment
    }
                  withRange: userNameRange];

...

- (void) attributedLabel: (TTTAttributedLabel *)label
didSelectLinkWithAddress: (NSDictionary *)addressComponents
{
    NSLog(@"UserName clicked
Address:%@", addressComponents);
}

Complete source code

Note that you should open xcworkspace in Xcode/AppCode because I'm using CocoaPods here.

Hope it helps.

BR.
Eugene