I have a label which I want to make curve up and curve down using slider. I achieve this using following code:
func drawCurvedString(on layer: CALayer, text: NSAttributedString, angle: CGFloat, radius: CGFloat) {
var radAngle = angle.radians
let textSize = text.boundingRect(
with: CGSize(width: .max, height: .max),
options: [.usesLineFragmentOrigin, .usesFontLeading],
context: nil)
.integral
.size
let perimeter: CGFloat = 2 * .pi * radius
let textAngle: CGFloat = textSize.width / perimeter * 2 * .pi
var textRotation: CGFloat = 0
var textDirection: CGFloat = 0
if angle > CGFloat(10).radians, angle < CGFloat(170).radians {
// bottom string
textRotation = 0.5 * .pi
textDirection = -2 * .pi
radAngle += textAngle / 2
} else {
// top string
textRotation = 1.5 * .pi
textDirection = 2 * .pi
radAngle -= textAngle / 2
}
for c in 0..<text.length {
let letter = text.attributedSubstring(from: NSRange(c..<c+1))
let charSize = letter.boundingRect(
with: CGSize(width: .max, height: .max),
options: [.usesLineFragmentOrigin, .usesFontLeading],
context: nil)
.integral
.size
let letterAngle = (charSize.width / perimeter) * textDirection
let x = radius * cos(radAngle + (letterAngle / 2))
let y = radius * sin(radAngle + (letterAngle / 2))
let singleChar = drawText(
on: layer,
text: letter,
frame: CGRect(
x: (layer.frame.size.width / 2) - (charSize.width / 2) + x,
y: (layer.frame.size.height / 2) - (charSize.height / 2) + y,
width: charSize.width,
height: charSize.height))
layer.addSublayer(singleChar)
singleChar.transform = CATransform3DMakeAffineTransform(CGAffineTransform(rotationAngle: radAngle - textRotation))
radAngle += letterAngle
}
}
func drawText(on layer: CALayer, text: NSAttributedString, frame: CGRect) -> CATextLayer {
let textLayer = CATextLayer()
textLayer.frame = frame
textLayer.string = text
textLayer.alignmentMode = kCAAlignmentCenter
textLayer.contentsScale = UIScreen.main.scale
return textLayer
}
But the problem is its add a sublayer of text. All I want to make existing text curve using slider value. There is some code available but that is in objective-c so can anyone help how to achieve this without adding sublayer in swift. Thanks in advance.