How do copy for UILabel?

Question

I have IBOutlet UILabel *label;

and I want to do this

UILabel *label = [titleLabel copy];
label.text = @\"Clone\";
titleLabel.text = @         


        

Answer 1

There is no public Apple API to deep copy a UILabel. Your best bet is to make a helper method which copies all the parts you care about.

- (UILabel *)deepLabelCopy:(UILabel *)label {
    UILabel *duplicateLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:label.frame];
    duplicateLabel.text = label.text;
    duplicateLabel.textColor = label.textColor;
    // etc... anything else which is important to your ULabel

    return [duplicateLabel autorelease];
}

If you want to use it all over your code base you can change it to a static method and put it in some sort of utility class. If you named the class LabelUtils you could do something like...

+ (UILabel *)deepLabelCopy(UILabel *)label {
    // ...
}

and would be called using UILabel *dupLabel = [LabelUtils deepLabelCopy:origLabel];