Getting UILabel to produce an ellipsis rather than shrinking the font

Question

When I dynamically change the text of a UILabel I would prefer to get an ellipsis (dot, dot, dot) rather then have the text be automatically resized. How does one do this?

Answer 1

Set the following properties:

Objective C

label.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = NO;
label.lineBreakMode = NSLineBreakByTruncatingTail;

Swift

label.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = false
label.lineBreakMode = .byTruncatingTail

You can also set these properties in interface builder.