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iOS

Emiliano Carrillo
Emiliano Carrillo
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Posted by Emiliano Carrillo
Emiliano Carrillo
1,420 Points

I'm trying to count characters on a textField but it seems that .text or utf16count does´t work anymore. Help please!

I'm trying to make a counter as in twitter but the error says: "apis deprecated as of ios 7 and earlier are unavailable in swift" I have also tried countElements( ) but nope. here is my code...

@IBAction func ContadorCaracteres(sender: AnyObject) {

    var contador = 10 - countElements(sender.text) //neither utf16count
    lblContador.text = "\(contador)"
}

1 Answer

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

what is this IBAction connected to? what are you trying to access the text property of?

Emiliano Carrillo
Emiliano Carrillo
1,420 Points
Emiliano Carrillo
Emiliano Carrillo
1,420 Points

It is connected to a textField because I want to count the characters as I write them and as in twitter set a counter on the bottom (with a label) but I don't know how to count the TEXT on the textField

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

and on what method of the textField is it firing on?

Emiliano Carrillo
Emiliano Carrillo
1,420 Points
Emiliano Carrillo
Emiliano Carrillo
1,420 Points

mmm... sorry I don´t understand I´m new to this. but I saw a guy who did it like this but it gives me the same error. I want to access to the text of the textField but don't know how :

"sender.text.utf16count"