How do you create textfield padding in Swift 4?

Question

I have a textfield called

nameTextField

I rounded the corners with the

nameTexfield.layer.cornerRadius = 5

Answer 1

As @the4kman says, Swift does support CGRect but the syntax may have changed.

You can try this for instance:

@IBOutlet weak var nameTextField: UITextField! {
    didSet {
        nameTextField.layer.cornerRadius =  5
        nameTextField.layer.borderColor = UIColor.black.cgColor
        nameTextField.layer.borderWidth = 1
        let leftView = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0.0, y: 0.0, width: 100.0, height: 2.0))
        nameTextField.leftView = leftView
        nameTextField.leftViewMode = .always
    }
}

If I do that, I get this fine result

Hope that helps.

Update

You ask for a function instead of setting it in didSet and sure, thats possible, something like:

func addPaddingAndBorder(to textfield: UITextField) {
    textfield.layer.cornerRadius =  5
    textfield.layer.borderColor = UIColor.black.cgColor
    textfield.layer.borderWidth = 1
    let leftView = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0.0, y: 0.0, width: 100.0, height: 2.0))
    textfield.leftView = leftView
    textfield.leftViewMode = .always
}

and then you' call that in viewDidLoad for instance like so:

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    addPaddingAndBorder(to: nameTextField)
}