[TIMOB-19168] iOS: attributedString does not override text property like documented

GitHub Issue	n/a
Type	Bug
Priority	None
Status	Resolved
Resolution	Cannot Reproduce
Resolution Date	2017-07-08T22:16:56.000+0000
Affected Version/s	n/a
Fix Version/s	n/a
Components	iOS
Labels	TCSupportTriage, attributedString, label, text
Reporter	Fokke Zandbergen
Assignee	Unknown
Created	2014-11-12T13:12:34.000+0000
Updated	2018-02-28T19:55:42.000+0000

Description

The [documentation says](http://docs.appcelerator.com/titanium/latest/#!/api/Titanium.UI.Label-property-attributedString) a Label's text property will be ignored if attributedString. However, the following test case shows it's not:

Test case

Remove the comments before line #7 and the label will say "Text".

var win = Titanium.UI.createWindow({
  backgroundColor: '#ddd',
});

win.add(Ti.UI.createLabel({
  top: 100,
  // text: 'Text',
  attributedString: Ti.UI.createAttributedString({
    text: 'Attributed String',
    attributes: [{
      type: Ti.UI.iOS.ATTRIBUTE_FOREGROUND_COLOR,
      value: 'red',
      range: [0, 10]
    }]
  })
}));

win.open();

The same might also be true for the value property of TextArea and TextField.

Comments

Hans Knöchel 2015-07-05

Possible fix is to manually check the attributedString property in the TiUILabel.m:

   // Skip text property, when attributedString is set.
   if([[self proxy] valueForKey:@"attributedString"] != nil) {
     return;
   }

Hans Knöchel 2017-07-08

Cannot reproduce in latest versions of the SDK, so it was probably fixed during moving from the Ti.UI.iOS to the parity Ti.UI namespace.

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