This is not working on interface builder. I see a question mark. Any help?

[patchthecode]

I dragged a UILabel unto storyBoard.
Then i changed the font to font awesome.
Then i pasted the icon -> 

It displays correctly on story board. But when i run the app, i am seeing a question mark.

Can you let me know the proper way to handle this on Interface builder/ Story board, with a UILabel?

[thii]

Probably the font was not loaded into memory before your storyboard was loaded. Do you have a sample project which reproduces this?

[james-ff]

For me this happens whenever the alpha of a previously working image changes or is set initally. See gif (buttons that turn to ? were clicked on which changes alpha by default, and the ones that don't appear to have an alpha are buttons that have isEnabled set to false which also sets an alpha). I should also say that this has not happened before and seems to be a new bug introduced in recent versions.

[james-ff]

let barButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem.init(title: "", style: .plain, target: target, action: action)
barButtonItem.setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedStringKey.font: UIFont.fontAwesome(ofSize: iconSize)], for: .normal)
barButtonItem.title = "  \(String.fontAwesomeIcon(name: name))  "
barButtonItem.tintColor = color
return barButtonItem

[electic]

I have the same problem. I ended up just making them images :( I am using 1.2.0

[james-ff]

@thii Is this a quick fix?

[thii]

I'll try to have a look at it sometime this weekend.

[Maik639]

Haven't tested it, but im pretty sure you have to set title text attributes for selected (and other) states too.
When selecting / pressing the button it changes to selected state and the title text attributes will be unset for that state.

[patchthecode]

yea.. maybe for a UIButton. But it doesnt work for a UILabel.

[phoney]

@james-ff @Maik639 This is a change in iOS 11 where setting textAttributes for themes or for controls requires setting the text attributes for both .normal and .highlighted.

[bradd-pktlzyer]

I had the same issue, shows in storyboard and ? in app. I walked the FontFamily and noticed font wasn't loading as I only used it in storyboard, I added a call to UIFont.fontAwesome(ofSize: 16) which installs the font via private FontLoad class. Worked after that.

[OlafAndreas]

Could someone confirm if in fact #170 provides a solution to this issue using: UIFont.loadFontAwesome() ?

[james-ff]

This has mostly been fixed for me, as mentioned by @phoney by applying attributes for multiple UIControlState enums, but the issue remains when a control is set to disabled (even though .disabled is used when setting the attributes). My guess is that the alpha of the BarButtonItem is causing the issue here, although when other enabled buttons are held down the alpha does not cause the icon to change to a [?] symbol.

barButtonItem.setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedStringKey.font: 
    UIFont.fontAwesome(ofSize: iconSize)], for: .normal)
barButtonItem.setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedStringKey.font: 
    UIFont.fontAwesome(ofSize: iconSize)], for: [.selected, .highlighted, .disabled, .reserved])

[james-ff]

@thii
Any progress on this issue?
To summarise my recent findings:

• Holding down on a bar button doesn't cause the ? mark effect
• Setting a bar button to disabled does
• This occurs despite setting all of the UIControlStates as in my last comment
• It seems that the UIControlStates addition fixes holding down, but not disabling a button

Many thanks for your hard work!

[OlafAndreas]

@james-ff
Are you using FontAwesomeBarButtonItem as a custom UIBarItem ?
If not, you should try that. I managed to reproduce what you're describing by not using FontAwesomeBarButtonItem and fixed it by setting the custom UIBarItem.

[james-ff]

@OlafAndreas
Could you provide sample code? I get the same outcome with the same setup of FontAwesomeBarButtonItem, and with just setting the title to cssCode I always get ?

[phoney]

@james-ff Can you setTitleTextAttributes for each of the states separately, without using the option set? That's how I've done it.

When you tap on the barButtonItem, as shown in your video, the state of the barButtonItem changes to highlighted or selected, and apparently it doesn't know what to do in those cases.

[james-ff]

That worked!

let titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.font: UIFont.fontAwesome(ofSize: iconSize)]
        barButtonItem.setTitleTextAttributes(titleTextAttributes, for: .normal)
        barButtonItem.setTitleTextAttributes(titleTextAttributes, for: .selected)
        barButtonItem.setTitleTextAttributes(titleTextAttributes, for: .highlighted)
        barButtonItem.setTitleTextAttributes(titleTextAttributes, for: .disabled)

It seems that setting UIControlStates as an array of options has issues, which is a shame because it means less dry code. Would this be an issue with swift or this library?
Many Thanks @phoney!

[phoney]

I think it's a UIKit issue and I think it's new in iOS 11. Never filed a bug though. Before that you could set the theme for .normal and it applied to all the states. I think it worked that way since the beginning.

[alanscarpa]

This also displays a question mark instead of an icon when I assign this to the text of a UILabel let phoneIconString = String.fontAwesomeIcon(name: .phone) You need to update the label font to myLabel.font = UIFont.fontAwesome(ofSize: 16) and then things should work.

[stale]

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

[patchthecode]

closing this issue.
Apple released glyphs. I'll use those instead of a lib.