ios swift: Is it possible to change the font style of a certain word in a string?

Question

I am extracting from a DB contents as strings. With a method I extract the longest word out of this string.

Now I would like to print out the entire string to a tex

Answer 1

You want to look at Attributed Strings and NSRange. You can use both of these together to create different styles for ranges in the string. Here is a snippet:

myMutableString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: myString, attributes: [NSFontAttributeName:UIFont(name: "Georgia", size: 18.0)!])

//Add more attributes here:
myMutableString.addAttribute(NSFontAttributeName, value: UIFont(name: "Chalkduster", size: 24.0), range: NSRange(location: 7,length: 5))
myMutableString.addAttribute(NSFontAttributeName, value: UIFont(name: "AmericanTypewriter-Bold", size: 18.0)!, range: NSRange(location:2,length:4))
myMutableString.addAttribute(NSForegroundColorAttributeName, value: UIColor.redColor(), range: NSRange(location:2,length:4))

myMutableString.addAttribute(NSFontAttributeName, value: UIFont(name: "Georgia", size: 36.0)!, range: NSRange(location: 0, length: 1))
myMutableString.addAttribute(NSStrokeColorAttributeName, value: UIColor.blueColor(), range:  NSRange(location: 0, length: 1))
myMutableString.addAttribute(NSStrokeWidthAttributeName, value: 2, range: NSRange(location: 0, length: 1))

myMutableString.addAttribute(NSBackgroundColorAttributeName, value: UIColor.greenColor(), range: NSRange(location: 0, length: myString.length))
myLabel.backgroundColor = UIColor.grayColor()

//Apply to the label
myLabel.attributedText = myMutableString