Question

So I am dynamically adding UILabels to a view along a “timeline”. What I would like to do is figure out how to put the starting coordinates of the next UILabel a couple of pixels past where the last one was. I’m having a hard time figuring out where the last one ended. I’ve looked at a few similar questions and I can’t seem to grasp how to do it. Everything is taking place in a for loop so I can update the xcoordinate variable each loop, but I need to know how to get the label size. Anyone have any ideas? I tried this but it didn’t seem to work:

UILabel *title = [[UILabel alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(labelsXpoint, 
                                                        topLabelYpoint,
                                                        labelWidth,
                                                        20)];

    CGSize labelSize = [title.text sizeWithFont:title.font constrainedToSize:title.frame.size  
                             lineBreakMode:title.lineBreakMode];
labelsXpoint += labelSize.width;

Answer 1

This is how you would get the top right & bottom right coordinates of the title label:

CGPoint topRight = CGPointMake(title.frame.origin.x + title.frame.size.width, title.frame.origin.y);
CGPoint bottomRight = CGPointMake(title.frame.origin.x + title.frame.size.width, title.frame.origin.y + title.frame.size.height);