How can I add text alignment attribute to an NSAttributedString to center the text?
Edit: Am I doing anything wrong? It doesn't seem to change the alignment.
CTParagraphStyleSetting setting;
setting.spec = kCTParagraphStyleSpecifierAlignment;
setting.valueSize = kCTCenterTextAlignment;
CTParagraphStyleSetting settings[1] = {
{kCTParagraphStyleSpecifierAlignment, sizeof(CGFloat), &setting},
};
CTParagraphStyleRef paragraph = CTParagraphStyleCreate(settings, sizeof(setting));
NSMutableAttributedString *mutableAttributed = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithAttributedString:self.attributedString];
[mutableAttributed addAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:(NSObject*)paragraph ,(NSString*) kCTParagraphStyleAttributeName, nil] range:_selectedRange];
As NSAttributedString
is primarily used with Core Text on iOS, you have to use CTParagraphStyle
instead of NSParagraphStyle
. There is no mutable variant.
For example:
CTTextAlignment alignment = kCTCenterTextAlignment;
CTParagraphStyleSetting alignmentSetting;
alignmentSetting.spec = kCTParagraphStyleSpecifierAlignment;
alignmentSetting.valueSize = sizeof(CTTextAlignment);
alignmentSetting.value = &alignment;
CTParagraphStyleSetting settings[1] = {alignmentSetting};
size_t settingsCount = 1;
CTParagraphStyleRef paragraphRef = CTParagraphStyleCreate(settings, settingsCount);
NSDictionary *attributes = @{(__bridge id)kCTParagraphStyleAttributeName : (__bridge id)paragraphRef};
NSAttributedString *attributedString = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:@"Hello World" attributes:attributes];