Changing Search Bar placeholder text font in Swift

Question

I am trying to change the font of the placeholder text in the search bar within my Search Display Controller. I was looking at some examples and I tried to implement them but as they are in Objective-C, I wasn't able to find any that I could get to work.

For example, I tried this one:

UITextField *textField = [[searchBar subviews] objectAtIndex:1];  [textField setFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"Helvetica" size:40]]; 

But I was unable to get past var textField: UITextField = UISearchBar

Any ideas?

Answer 1

 //SearchBar Text     let textFieldInsideUISearchBar = dashBoardSearchBar.valueForKey("searchField") as? UITextField textFieldInsideUISearchBar?.textColor = UIColor.whiteColor()  //SearchBar Placeholder          let textFieldInsideUISearchBarLabel = textFieldInsideUISearchBar!.valueForKey("placeholderLabel") as? UILabel textFieldInsideUISearchBarLabel?.textColor = UIColor.whiteColor()