How can I concatenate NSAttributedStrings?
I'd recommend you use a single mutable attributed string a @Linuxios suggested, and here's another example of that:
NSMutableAttributedString *mutableAttString = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] init];NSString *plainString = // ...NSDictionary *attributes = // ... a dictionary with your attributes.NSAttributedString *newAttString = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:plainString attributes:attributes];[mutableAttString appendAttributedString:newAttString];
However, just for the sake of getting all the options out there, you could also create a single mutable attributed string, made from a formatted NSString containing the input strings already put together. You could then use addAttributes: range:
to add the attributes after the fact to the ranges containing the input strings. I recommend the former way though.
If you're using Swift, you can just overload the +
operator so that you can concatenate them in the same way you concatenate normal strings:
// concatenate attributed stringsfunc + (left: NSAttributedString, right: NSAttributedString) -> NSAttributedString{ let result = NSMutableAttributedString() result.append(left) result.append(right) return result}
Now you can concatenate them just by adding them:
let helloworld = NSAttributedString(string: "Hello ") + NSAttributedString(string: "World")
Swift 3: Simply create a NSMutableAttributedString and append the attributed strings to them.
let mutableAttributedString = NSMutableAttributedString()let boldAttribute = [ NSFontAttributeName: UIFont(name: "GothamPro-Medium", size: 13)!, NSForegroundColorAttributeName: Constants.defaultBlackColor]let regularAttribute = [ NSFontAttributeName: UIFont(name: "Gotham Pro", size: 13)!, NSForegroundColorAttributeName: Constants.defaultBlackColor]let boldAttributedString = NSAttributedString(string: "Warning: ", attributes: boldAttribute)let regularAttributedString = NSAttributedString(string: "All tasks within this project will be deleted. If you're sure you want to delete all tasks and this project, type DELETE to confirm.", attributes: regularAttribute)mutableAttributedString.append(boldAttributedString)mutableAttributedString.append(regularAttributedString)descriptionTextView.attributedText = mutableAttributedString
swift5 upd:
let captionAttribute = [ NSAttributedString.Key.font: Font.captionsRegular, NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.appGray ]