iphone programming obj-c : removing the “…”

Question

when you enter a too long sentence for the iphone it automaticaly add a "..." at the end to show you there is other stuff you don't see right. I want to delete those "...".

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Answer 1

Well, I'm assuming you're using a label. Look into the "lineBreakMode" property. Your solution will probably involve some combination of that property in conjunction with the "numberOfLines" property. For example, setting the "numberOfLines" property to 0 will automatically increase the height of a label to fit all text. So using that with a UILineBreakModeWordWrap would probably do the trick.

UILabel *label = [[UILabel alloc] init];
label.numberOfLines = 0;
label.lineBreakMode = UILineBreakModeWordWrap;
label.text = @"Light beer 5% 10oz Glass served cold";
[label release];

Answer 2

You have several options for that:

1. Set label's lineBreakMode property to UILineBreakModeClip - that way your sentence will just be clipped without "..." on the end
2. Set label's adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth property to YES - label will automatically reduce font size to fit string into available space
3. Make your UILabel have multiple lines - set its numberOfLines property to 0 and lineBreakMode to UILineBreakModeWordWrap. Although with this approach your label's height must be big enough to contain several lines...