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Can I set the UILabel to expand according to an arbitrary amount of text?

This question is more suitable for development purposes and will never be used for a delivery app. I need to make a quick and dirty UILabel whose textbox I can point to a really, really, long string. Really long. I am but futzing at IB and cannot figure out the correct magic handshake to allow UILabel to run for a really big size. Does anyone have any idea?

Cheers, Doug

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You can use the method in the UIKit extensions to NSString to achieve this goal . You can get the size using this method :

- (CGSize)sizeWithFont:(UIFont *)font
           minFontSize:(CGFloat)minFontSize
        actualFontSize:(CGFloat *)actualFontSize
              forWidth:(CGFloat)width
         lineBreakMode:(UILineBreakMode)lineBreakMode

Set the size of the label to the return value of this method and everything will be set.



EDIT: This method is for single line strings. If your line is more than one line then use this method :

- (CGSize)sizeWithFont:(UIFont *)font
     constrainedToSize:(CGSize)size
         lineBreakMode:(UILineBreakMode)lineBreakMode
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