I am implementing an IM app on iOS. I found that three20 library has a TTStyledTextLabel which provides cool features like showing images and url links. However I want to embed the TTStyledTextLabel in a message bubble (just like the sms app shipped with iphone does), where I need the label to adjust its size according to the text length. I found that TTStyledTextLabel can adjust its height according to its width, but I don't know how to make it shrink horizontally when the text is very short and can't fill up a whole line. Any suggestions?
I think I have a slightly better solution: I get the rootFrame of the ttstyledtext and iterate over its sibling frames to find the max width.
It works like this:
TTStyledTextLabel* label = [[TTStyledTextLabel alloc] init];
label.text = [TTStyledText textFromXHTML:myTextToBeDisplayed];
[label sizeToFit];
CGFloat maxWidth = 0;
TTStyledFrame *f = label.text.rootFrame;
while (f) {
int w = f.x + f.width;
if (w > maxWidth) {
maxWidth = w;
}
f = f.nextFrame;
}
return CGSizeMake(maxWidth, label.height);