Can't get UITextField to autoshrink text

Question

I have a UITextField on a table view cell, and when it\'s text becomes too long I would like the font size to decrease. I want to make it very clear that I am t

Answer 1

My humble solution for this problem was this.... (find the proper size of font on my own - to fit the size of frame) I made it inside delegate method of shouldChangeCharactersInRange:replacementString:

-(BOOL)textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range replacementString:(NSString *)string

 {

    // bla bla ... anything inside method you want to do

    // reset font size of textfield
    textField.font = [FONT_PROXY fontNormalOfSizeNormal];

    CGFloat widthOfText = [textField.text sizeWithAttributes:@{NSFontAttributeName:textField.font}].width;
    CGFloat widthOfFrame = textField.frame.size.width;

    // decrease font size until it fits (25 is constant that works for me)
    while((widthOfFrame - 25) < widthOfText){
        CGFloat fontSize = textField.font.pointSize;
        textField.font = [textField.font fontWithSize:fontSize - 0.5f];
         widthOfText = [textField.text sizeWithAttributes:@{NSFontAttributeName:textField.font}].width;
         widthOfFrame = textField.frame.size.width;
    }


  }