NSFontAttributedString worked before XCode 6.1

Question

let timeFont = [NSFontAttributeName:UIFont(name: \"Voyage\", size: 20.0)]
var attrString3 = NSAttributedString(\"(Time)\", attributes : timeFont); // <--- compile         


        

Answer 1

Xcode 6.1 comes with Swift 1.1 that supports constructors that can fail. UIFont initialisation can fail and return nil. Also use string: when creating NSAttributedString:

if let font = UIFont(name: "Voyage", size: 20.0) {
    let timeFont = [NSFontAttributeName:font]
    var attrString3 = NSAttributedString(string: "(Time)", attributes : timeFont)
}