Resizing a UILabel to accommodate insets

Question

I\'m building a screen to scan barcodes, and I need to put a translucent screen behind some UILabels to improve visibility against light backgrounds.

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Answer 1

Here is a Swift version of a UILabel subclass (same as @Nikolai's answer) that creates an additional padding around the text of a UILabel:

class EdgeInsetLabel : UILabel {
    var edgeInsets:UIEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsetsZero

    override func textRectForBounds(bounds: CGRect, limitedToNumberOfLines numberOfLines: Int) -> CGRect {
        var rect = super.textRectForBounds(UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect(bounds, edgeInsets), limitedToNumberOfLines: numberOfLines)

        rect.origin.x -= edgeInsets.left
        rect.origin.y -= edgeInsets.top
        rect.size.width  += (edgeInsets.left + edgeInsets.right);
        rect.size.height += (edgeInsets.top + edgeInsets.bottom);

        return rect
    }

    override func drawTextInRect(rect: CGRect) {
        super.drawTextInRect(UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect(rect, edgeInsets))
    }
}

Answer 2

Swift 5 version of Nikolai Ruhe answer:

extension UIEdgeInsets {
   func apply(_ rect: CGRect) -> CGRect {
      return rect.inset(by: self)
   }
}

class EdgeInsetLabel: UILabel {
  var textInsets = UIEdgeInsets.zero {
      didSet { invalidateIntrinsicContentSize() }
  }

  override func textRect(forBounds bounds: CGRect, limitedToNumberOfLines numberOfLines: Int) -> CGRect {
    let insetRect = bounds.inset(by: textInsets)
    let textRect = super.textRect(forBounds: insetRect, limitedToNumberOfLines: numberOfLines)
    let invertedInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: -textInsets.top,
                                      left: -textInsets.left,
                                      bottom: -textInsets.bottom,
                                      right: -textInsets.right)
    return textRect.inset(by: invertedInsets)
  }

  override func drawText(in rect: CGRect) {
      super.drawText(in: rect.inset(by: textInsets))
  }}