Showing posts with label Cocoa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cocoa. Show all posts

Friday, March 20, 2015

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!


Thursday, March 19, 2015

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).

Visual Attributed String Mac app screenshot showing text offset from the baseline.

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.

Saturday, March 14, 2015

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!

Friday, February 13, 2015

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!