Question

Is it possible to assign a text tag to any UIObject? If not is there another way I can do it? Can I do for example:

image.tag = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"Hello"];

Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

No, the tag is an integer.

Consider subclassing UIImageView class and just adding a NSString property. It is really simple these days.

Example:

@interface TaggedImageView : UIImageView
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSString *tagString;
@end
@implementation TaggedImageView
@end

Then just use TaggedImageView in place of UIImageView.

If you only access the MyImageView from one .m file you can just put these lines just after the #import statements.