Question

I am trying to use this method to draw a string into a custom UITableViewCell.

   [self.text drawInRect:TEXT_RECT withFont:font lineBreakMode:UILineBreakModeTailTruncation alignment:UITextAlignmentLeft];

The problem is that if the text is too long, the text is actually tail truncate but it doesn’t display the “…”

If I use the drawInPoint

[self.text drawAtPoint:CGPointMake(60, 0) forWidth:200 withFont:font minFontSize:15 actualFontSize:nil lineBreakMode:UILineBreakModeTailTruncation
    baselineAdjustment:UIBaselineAdjustmentAlignBaselines];

Then, I get the “…” but now it make all of my text one line, so the quite long text will get truncated too soon. For example:

If I have the text "Hello all, here is my first book". If I use drawInRect, then I can display it in 2 lines, but if I use drawAtPoint, I only see the first line like : "Hello all, here ..."

So, any help to make either method work will be appreciated

Answer 1

UILineBreakModeTailTruncation only truncates the last line of text. Is TEXT_RECT big enough to hold multiple lines of text? What appears to be tail truncation might just be a rect that isn’t tall enough.