Question

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];

objectiveLabel.text = objectstring;
objectiveLabel.lineBreakMode = UILineBreakModeWordWrap;
objectiveLabel.numberOfLines = 0;
[objectiveLabel sizeToFit];

vocabularyLabel.text = vocabularystring;
vocabularyLabel.lineBreakMode = UILineBreakModeWordWrap;
vocabularyLabel.numberOfLines = 0;
[vocabularyLabel sizeToFit];   


}

Can Someone point me to the right direction on how to get Label 1 to push or move Label 2 instead of overlapping?

Answer 1

If you want to “push or move” a UILabel, you just set the frames accordingly. So look at objectiveLabel.frame, add the objectiveLabel.frame.origin.x plus objectiveLabel.frame.size.width, and that’s the minimum of what you should set vocabularyLabel.frame.origin.x to. If you want vocabularyLabel to adjust for the width of not only the objectiveLabel frame width, but actually to tweak according to how objectstring will be rendered in objectiveLabel, you calculate the size of objectiveLabel‘s width by:

CGSize size1 = [objectstring sizeWithFont:objectiveLabel.font 
                        constrainedToSize:objectiveLabel.frame.size
                            lineBreakMode:objectiveLabel.contentMode];

CGRect frame2 = vocabularyLabel.frame;
frame2.origin.x = objectiveLabel.origin.x + size1.width;
vocabularyLabel.frame = frame2;

This won’t factor in the minimumFontSize of the labels, though. But if the minimumFontSize is the same size as the font size, then you should be golden.