How to calculate height of a String?

Question

I am trying to adjust the cell height resize to fit the UILabel text, but it is not working..

var mySize = CGFloat()
    func collectionView(collectionView: UICollectionView, cellForItemAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UICollectionViewCell {
        let cell = collectionView.dequeueReusableCellWithReuseIdentifier("cell", forIndexPath: indexPath) as! cellView

        cell.myLabel.text = self.items[indexPath.item]
        cell.myLabel.bounds.size.height = self.mySize

        cell.backgroundColor = UIColor.yellowColor()

        return cell
    }

    func collectionView(collectionView: UICollectionView, didSelectItemAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) {
        // handle tap events
        print("You selected cell #\(indexPath.item)!")
    }

    func collectionView(collectionView: UICollectionView, layout collectionViewLayout: UICollectionViewLayout, sizeForItemAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> CGSize {

        func heightForLabel(text:String, font:UIFont, width:CGFloat) -> CGFloat
        {
            let label:UILabel = UILabel(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, width, CGFloat.max))
            label.numberOfLines = 0
            label.lineBreakMode = NSLineBreakMode.ByWordWrapping
            label.font = font
            label.text = items[indexPath.row]

            label.sizeToFit()
            return label.frame.height
        }

        let font = UIFont(name: "Helvetica Neue", size: 30)
        let detailHeight = heightForLabel(items[indexPath.row], font: font!, width: UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds.size.width)

        self.mySize = detailHeight

        return CGSizeMake(UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds.size.width, 358 + detailHeight)
    }

Any suggestions what to do here? Should i do it another way? Please, I need help.. The problem is that the UILabel text is set in the cellForItemAtIndexPath, and items is an array for strings.

This is my project file, if someone watch to take a look at it: http://www.filedropper.com/test_37

Answer 1

Why not try this in ObjC

 [text boundingRectWithSize:CGSizeMake(maxWidth, maxHeight)
                                  options:NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin
                               attributes:nil context:nil]

This will give CGRect. Get the height from it. set font size etc in attributes parameter.

UPDATE

In place of this

let detailHeight = heightForLabel(items[indexPath.row], font: font!, width: UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds.size.width)

Use this

let height = items[indexPath.row].boundingRectWithSize(CGSizeMake(CGFloat.max,UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds.size.width), options: .UsesLineFragmentOrigin, attributes: [NSFontAttributeName: font!], context: nil).size.height

Hope this helps