Justified Text view with hyphenation

[waelsaad]

Hi Ryan,

FrameUp is an amazing project. once again thank you for sharing.

I am wondering in additonal to my previous issue regarding right to left language support.

Is it also possible to implement an option for HFlow Layout so that when a word is too long for a row, it would break the word onto 2 lines with the extra characters of the word on the second line?

In my scenario I am displaying like 3 columns of justified text each column has one kind of a language, the frame width for each column is not that wide so sometimes the word is too long in its row and to display it correctly I would like to break it up on to 2 lines.

Hoping for a response whenever you are free on the 2 issues please. I pormise I won't have any more :].

Thank you.

Wael

[ryanlintott]

This isn't really possible for HFlow as it's not designed specifically for text layout and can't break up the views that are supplied. You would need to pre-process the text and break up long words yourself.

My recommendation would be to use UIKit or CoreText for more complex text layout like this as I think there are more automatic ways to support justification and hyphenation.

That said, if you want a hacky SwiftUI approach I haven't fully developed it yet (It doesn't support right to left for example). I might include this in FrameUp in the future if I can make a less hacky version.

[waelsaad]

Thank you Ryan. I got what you said about attempting to break up the text preior. I will have a go at that.

I understand your recommendation regarding UIKit or CoreText that they can do more complex text layout but to be honest I found that FrameUp is an easy to use library that is a mature enough for what I need it to do and its specifically designed for SwiftUI.

Even though HFlow was not designed specifically for text layout but its filling a SwiftUI gap for my requirements at the moment.

I will be greedy to raise one more issue to get your thoughts, even if its a simillar response to this one.

[ryanlintott]

Feel free to raise issues if there are features you'd like to see. I'm glad you're finding the package helpful.

[waelsaad]

Absloutly you don't understand how helpful it has been,. Its also serving an important great purpose that I intend on sharing once its complete, I am still at early stages of the development of this project. Also just my opinion that hacky SwiftUI approach you mentioned above is worthy of putting it as part of the FrameUp library once it has support for right to left and also flexiable width like with HFlowLayout(alignment: .justified) you don't need to pass a width so for example if it exists within a HStack, then it should workout the maximum width by itself. Then its a very powerfull lightwieght version of what I am after. and can be easily used in other apps. Thank you.