Can not set custom font

[666tos]

Adding [super setFont:font]; in setFont: solved issue

[cbpowell]

Could you provide a little more background? Setting a MarqueeLabel's font works fine for me using the font property, i.e.self.aLabel.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:10];.

Or do you mean custom, non-system fonts added to your app bundle?

[marfurt]

I have the same problem using HelveticaNeue-Light in Interface Builder.

Apparently, setting the font property of the label has no effect if it is set to a custom font in Interface Builder.

The workaround is to use a system font in Interface Builder, and then set the property with the desired custom font programmatically:

aMarqueLabel.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue-Light" size:16.0f];

[666tos]

I use default font in interface builder and set font to custom one programmatically.
But anyway, it doesn't matter if it's system or custom one. It works just fine all over the application.

[cbpowell]

Ah, I understand the problem now. Something must not be working as expected in the forwardPropertiesToSublabel method, resulting in the font as set by IB not making it to the subLabel. I'll check it out.

[cbpowell]

This was the result of over-reliance on the attributedText property. After a bit of testing, it looks like if a value is set to the attributedText property that the font, textColor, and other style properties simply reference the data stored in the attributed text, rather than actually storing a UIFont/UIColor/whatever object.

I was using attributedText in forwardPropertiesToSublabel with the assumption it did set the style properties. I'm assuming you were using the text property to set just your string at a later point - as of iOS 6 setting the text property also replaces attributedText with an unstyled string, so the style properties stored there were also cleared and reset to default.

Check out release v2.0.4 for the fix. Thanks for pointing it out!

[marfurt]

I am using the text property of the UILabel, indeed.

It works correctly now with release 2.0.4, thank you for the fix!