UILabel.attributedText set attributes once and then just change text (string)

Question

How to set UILabel text attributes only once and then just change text (string)

mTextValue.attributedText = NSAttributedString(string: "STRING", 
       attributes: 
           [NSAttributedStringKey.strokeWidth: -3.0,      
            NSAttributedStringKey.strokeColor: UIColor.black])


mTextValue.text = "NEW STRING" // won't change anything

or to set new string do I have to set NSAttributedString to .attributedText again and again?

Answer 1

You could declare a mutableAttributed string separat and change the string of it like here:

let yourString = "my string"
let yourAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.strokeWidth: -3.0, NSAttributedStringKey.strokeColor: UIColor.black] as [NSAttributedStringKey : Any]
let mutableAttributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: yourString, attributes: yourAttributes)

let yourNewString = "my new string"
mutableAttributedString.mutableString.setString(yourNewString)

Full example:

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    var mutableAttributedString = NSMutableAttributedString()

    @IBAction func buttonTapped(_ sender: Any) {

        mutableAttributedString.mutableString.setString("new string")
        mainLabel.attributedText = mutableAttributedString

    }

    @IBOutlet weak var mainLabel: UILabel!

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        let yourString = "my string"
        let yourAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.strokeWidth: -3.0, NSAttributedStringKey.strokeColor: UIColor.blue] as [NSAttributedStringKey : Any]
        mutableAttributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: yourString, attributes: yourAttributes)

        mainLabel.attributedText = mutableAttributedString
    }

}