Is there any way to get CGRects for NSRange in UILabel?

Question

I have a UILabel with NSAttribtuedString and need to find all CGRects corresponding to a certain NSRange in the string. Is there any non-hacky way I can accomplish this?

I'm looking for this because I intend to overlay highlight views over the label like this:

I'm aware that UITextView is much more suitable for this as it implements UITextInput protocol (which has all the methods I need), but due to a bug in iOS I'm limited to UILabel.

I've looked for solution without success. This gist didn't work for me and I haven't found any UILabel subclass that would implement any such method that would help me.

Any suggestions? Pete.

Answer 1

UILabel doesn't have any methods to find rect from range. You can do it using UITextView (set UITextView editable property to NO) . UITextview implements the UITextInput protocol . you can get the rect from range using UITextInput protocol methods