How to retrieve the font of a UISegmentedControl's title programmatically?

Question

I need to use a UIFont extension on a UISegmentedControl's title, but in order to do so, I have to get access to the UISegmentedControl's title font programmatically.

How can I do that?

I tried to create an instance of a label, and then assign the UISegmentedControl's title to the text of that label but it's not the proper way to do it.

here's my attempt:

let segmentTitle = segmentedControl.titleForSegmentAtIndex(0)
let label = UILabel()
label.text = segmentTitle

I'm looking for a better way to do that ?

Answer 1

The method you're looking for is -setTitleTextAttributes:forState: .

let attributes: [String: AnyObject] = [ NSFontAttributeName: myFont ]
segmentedControl.setTitleTextAttributes(attributes, forState:.Normal)

For the full list of keys you can use in the attributes dictionary, see the Character Attributes section of the UIKit NSAttributedString reference.