Question

In my application, I want to create a Receipt Layout for printing. I’m struggling to create proper alignment between strings.

I want to create something like this (with proper alignments)

Coke         2       comment1
Chocolate    3       comment2
ice          4       comment3

Currently I have done like this

NSMutableString* strBody = [NSMutableString string];
for (int i=0; i<[arrItems count];i++){
    [strBody appendString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"\n%@           %@  %@",[[arrItems objectAtIndex:i] objectForKey:@"ProductName"],[[arrItems objectAtIndex:i] objectForKey:@"ProductQuantity"],[[arrItems objectAtIndex:i] objectForKey:@"Comment"]]];
}

But, here I just use fixed length spaces, so the issue is I’m not getting proper alignment. Currently what I am struggling is how to put flexible spaces between string items?

If anyone had do something like this, please give me some help.

Thanks in advanced…

Answer 1

You can create separate UILabel and use setFrame property to align all the labels….

or use \t (tab character depending on length of the string….