Question

My objective is simple: From a UILabel get the rect of a substring in the text of the label. From extensive searching there doesn’t appear to be anything built in to handle this. Other people have asked similar questions, but none have been answered fully here on Stackoverflow.

// Something like this perhaps (added as a category)
CGRect rect = [myLabel rectForRange:NSMakeRange(3, 5)];

An example of what it could be used for (just to clarify what I’m searching for):

Answer 1

This was mostly needed for one character rects, so I went crazy and wrote some code that could accurately calculate the rect for the most basic UILabel. Standard UILineBreakMode and text alignment.

I was hoping that if I release it to the public people code contribute to it and improve it, especially since I don’t know so much about text rendering!

The code:

https://gist.github.com/1278483