Title of Segmented Control does not fit, overlaps?

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In my segmented control, sometimes the title is wider than fits its segment. How can I make it truncate? Let's say the title of segment 1 is Text overlaps and segment 2 is named ok.

How I want it to look: Text ov...| ok What it looks like: Text overla|ps ok What I tried: Setting the width of the segment programmatically setWidth:forSegment. Still overlapping, not truncating. Studying the properties of UISegmentedControl Do I have to truncate it myself, before setting the title of the segment?

Ios cocoa-touch uikit uisegmentedcontrol link|improve this question edited Dec 23 '11 at 18:42 asked Dec 23 '11 at 18:06JOG584312 77% accept rate.

You have to truncate it yourself. There is no public API for setting the truncation. Even if you dig through the UISegmentedControl's private view hierarchy, find the labels, and set lineBreakMode to UILineBreakModeTailTruncation, it won't truncate the labels for you.

(I tried. ) EDIT: I got this to work. It's not pretty, it might stop working in a future iOS release, and it might get you rejected from the App Store.

Static void fixLineBreakMode(UIView *view) { if (view respondsToSelector:@selector(setLineBreakMode:)) { (id)view setLineBreakMode:UILineBreakModeTailTruncation; view setFrame:CGRectInset(view. Superview bounds, 6, 0); } else { for (UIView *subview in view. Subviews) fixLineBreakMode(subview); } } - (void)viewDidLoad { super viewDidLoad; fixLineBreakMode(self.

SegmentedControl); }.

– JOG Dec 23 '11 at 19:07 You'd be accessing a private view hierarchy. I don't know if they would reject you for that. I'm just pointing out the possibility.

– rob mayoff Dec 23 '11 at 19:09.

I had the same challenge when I needed to populate a segmented control with x number of segments. Some titles were overhanging. I have tried to truncate the titles in middle if they were too long.

I did something like: NSString *s = @"This title is too long to fit"; NSMutableString *mS = NSMutableString alloc init; int len = s length; if (len > 10) { for (int I = 0; I 3 && I It reaches 3. When you have the truncated string you can use that to set a segment title. The same logic for head, tail truncating.

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