How do I insert an image Inline UILabel in iOS 8 using swift

Question

I followed the following post on how to use NSTextAttachment to add images inline with your UILabels. I followed the best I could and wrote my version in Swift.

I am creating a chat application and the field that I'm inserting a beer icon into does not render the image or doesn't seem to render the image inline. I don't get any errors so I'm assuming I'm missing some small little detail in my code.

var beerName:String!

        if(sender == bn_beer1)
        {
            beerName = "beer1.png"
        }

        if(sender == bn_beer2)
        {
            beerName = "beer2.png"
        }

        if(sender == bn_beer3)
        {
            beerName = "beer3"
        }



        var attachment:NSTextAttachment = NSTextAttachment()
        attachment.image = UIImage(named: beerName)


        var attachmentString:NSAttributedString = NSAttributedString(attachment: attachment)
        var myString:NSMutableAttributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: inputField.text)
        myString.appendAttributedString(attachmentString)



        inputField.attributedText = myString;

Answer 1

This does not work on a UITextField. It only works on a UILabel.

Here is a UILabel extension based on your code (Swift 2.0)

extension UILabel
{
    func addImage(imageName: String)
    {
        let attachment:NSTextAttachment = NSTextAttachment()
        attachment.image = UIImage(named: imageName)

        let attachmentString:NSAttributedString = NSAttributedString(attachment: attachment)
        let myString:NSMutableAttributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: self.text!)
        myString.appendAttributedString(attachmentString)

        self.attributedText = myString
    }
}

EDIT:

here is a new version that allow to add the icon before or after the label. There is also a function to remove the icon from the label

extension UILabel
{
    func addImage(imageName: String, afterLabel bolAfterLabel: Bool = false)
    {
        let attachment: NSTextAttachment = NSTextAttachment()
        attachment.image = UIImage(named: imageName)
        let attachmentString: NSAttributedString = NSAttributedString(attachment: attachment)

        if (bolAfterLabel)
        {
            let strLabelText: NSMutableAttributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: self.text!)
            strLabelText.appendAttributedString(attachmentString)

            self.attributedText = strLabelText
        }
        else
        {
            let strLabelText: NSAttributedString = NSAttributedString(string: self.text!)
            let mutableAttachmentString: NSMutableAttributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(attributedString: attachmentString)
            mutableAttachmentString.appendAttributedString(strLabelText)

            self.attributedText = mutableAttachmentString
        }
    }

    func removeImage()
    {
        let text = self.text
        self.attributedText = nil
        self.text = text
    }
}