I have a UILabel that is nested inside of a StackView, and I am needing to create a UIView that will take up the exact same position on the screen as the UILabel did, and then hide the UILabel (this is a premium portion of an app, so if it's the free version I need to replace the data with a lock icon). My code below creates the view but it's positioning is far to the bottom right of where the label is. How can I accomplish what I'm trying to do?
let testView = UIView()
testView.frame = CGRect(x: hrrLabel.frame.origin.x, y: hrrLabel.frame.origin.y, width: hrrLabel.frame.width, height: hrrLabel.frame.height)
testView.backgroundColor = UIColor.red
hrrLabel.isHidden = true
hrrLabel.addSubview(testView)
Simply place the testView
in your hrrLabel
's bounds. (Assuming the view you want to place on TOP is the testView
-- not entirely sure which view is suppose to be which).
let testView = UIView()
testView.frame = hrrLabel.bounds //Bounds here, not frame
testView.backgroundColor = UIColor.red
hrrLabel.isHidden = true
hrrLabel.addSubview(testView)
//Hide view without hiding subviews
hrrLabel.backgroundColor = hrrLabel.backgroundColor.withAlphaComponent(alpha: 0)
//hrrLabel.isHidden = true
Lookup the difference between CGRect.bounds
and CGRect.frame
and it will make creating subviews much easier.