Question

What is the best way to display a formatted NSString? I’m trying to format the choices for a multiple choice question on an app.

choices1 = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"\n\n Blue \n\n"
            "Yellow \n\n"
            "Red \n\n"
            "Orange \n\n"];

I want to display that on the iPhone screen. I tried using UILabel but it doesn’t recognize the new line characters. (It prints the words though).

should look like this:

Blue

Yellow

Red

Orange

Thoughts? Thanks.

Answer 1

UILabel defaults to single-line display. If you want multiple lines, set numberOfLines to 0, for unlimited lines, or to whatever number of lines you want to cap the label at.