I am trying to access the text value in the CATextlayer, I can access other values but this string attribute cannot be accessed and it isn't even displayed on intellisence either. Is there some other way to access it ? I am new to swift.I have something like below:
let textLayer = CATextLayer()
textLayer.isHidden = true
textLayer.contentsScale = UIScreen.main.scale
textLayer.fontSize = 14
textLayer.font = UIFont(name: "textLayer = CATextLayer()
textLayer.isHidden = true
textLayer.contentsScale = UIScreen.main.scale
textLayer.fontSize = 14
textLayer.font = UIFont(name: "Avenir", size: textLayer.fontSize)
textLayer.alignmentMode = kCAAlignmentCenter", size:textLayer.fontSize)
textLayer.string = "someText"
textLayer.foregroundColor = textColor.cgColor
textLayer.backgroundColor = color.cgColor
textLayer.isHidden = false
textLayer.contentsScale = UIScreen.main.scale
textLayer.name="someText"
and I want to access this string attribute value like
override func touchesBegan(_ touches: Set<UITouch>, with event: UIEvent?) {
let touch = touches.first
guard let point = touch?.location(in: cameraView) else { return }
print(self.selectedObject = cameraView.layer.sublayers![2].string!)
self.selectedObject = cameraView.layer.sublayers![2].name!//Textlayer
// print(cameraView.layer.sublayers![3])//shapelayer
}
The sublayers property is declared as the base class [CALayer]
To get a value from a particular CALayer subclass you have to cast the type
if let textLayer = cameraView.layer.sublayers?[2] as? CATextLayer {
print(textLayer.string!)
}