VAS Image Extractor: A New Free Tool for your Visual Attributed String Files Released on the Mac App Store!

VAS Image Extractor has been released on the Mac App Store today for FREE! VAS Image Extractor allows you to quickly and easily extract all of the images out of your .vas (Visual Attributed String) document files!

I have released VAS Image Extractor to help you collaborate with others on your development team. If someone on you development team sends you a .vas file with images in it, he does not need to send the source images with the document file. You can simply use this tool to extract the images out of the document.

You also cannot beat the price. VAS Image Extractor is free!

Tutorial: Putting Together an iOS User Interface with Visual Attributed String in Swift!

In this tutorial, I put together an iOS application's user interface in less than 10 minutes with the help of Visual Attributed String! This tutorial uses the exact same interface we created in this previous tutorial: Visual Attributed String Tutorial: Putting Together an iOS User Interface In Less Than 20 Minutes. The difference is, we use Swift in this updated tutorial video (the last tutorial was in Objective-C) and we also use Interface Builder (in the last tutorial we created the view hierarchy programmatically).

If you already watch the previous tutorial, you can skip up to 2:20 (as designing the user interface portion of the video is exactly the same as the last video). Check it out!

Visual Attributed String Version 1.3 Update Released on the Mac App Store! What's New? You can now adjust the baseline offset of text!

Since the initial release of Visual Attributed String, I have pushed a significant update out every single week. Version 1.1 gave you the ability to generate attributed string code with your own variable names, version 1.2 added the Visual Attributed String Action Extension, and now Version 1.3 adds baseline support! NSBaselineOffsetAttributeName is now officially supported!

This new feature can be handy, especially when you are trying to align text next to an image on the y-axis (as seen in the screenshot below).

There are more features to come! If you have purchased Visual Attributed String from the Mac App Store and are enjoying the new updates, the best way you can show your support is to leave a review on the Mac App Store.

Visual Attributed String Version 1.2 Update Released on the Mac App Store! What's New? An OS X Action Extension!

Version 1.2 of Visual Attributed String has been released on the Mac App Store! This update introduces the brand new Visual Attributed String action extension on OS X Yosemite! Check out the video to see this new feature in action!

Version 1.0 of Visual Attributed String will Include Swift Support!

The original plan was to put out version 1.0 of Visual Attributed String with only Objective-C support and quickly drop a nice 1.1 update to add Swift. However, the Swift implementation has been going so well that I've decided to reject my already approved binary from the Mac App Store and resubmit a new build for the 1.0 version. The good news is, version 1.0 of Visual Attributed String will allow you to generate Swift code right from the start! You won't have to wait for an update!

Visual Attributed String Brain Test!

So, we thought it'd be fun to put Visual Attributed String's code generating abilities to the test! In this video, we paste a large body of syntax highlighted text from Xcode into a Visual Attributed String document. Then, we generate the attributed string code and use it in an iOS application inside of a UITextView! Was Visual Attributed String smart enough to display the text properly? Check out the video!