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iOS Build an Interactive Story App with Swift Creating a Story Story Segments as Enum Members

Addison Francisco
Addison Francisco
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Posted by Addison Francisco
Addison Francisco
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Image literal name doesn't display next to image literal

I've noticed that the name of the image literal is not present after selecting the image. This is inconsistent with Pasan's code but still works fine. It's the same with color literals, as well. Was this a change between Xcode 8 and 9? I'm currently using Xcode 9.

Thomas Swatland
Thomas Swatland
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Thomas Swatland
Thomas Swatland
13,530 Points

Same here, probably part of the Swift 4 update.

Jason Gallant
Jason Gallant
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Jason Gallant
Jason Gallant
8,437 Points

I am having the same issue. When I autocomplete .returnTrip: return ReturnImage, the "ReturnImage" image is replaced with a very small version of the image, without any code after it, which looks very different than the code above. I've seen this before in the vending machine app as I recall. Is this expected behavior, or do I have a setting I need to change? I can't find anything online, nor in the documentation about this particular strangeness. I am on Xcode 9.2 in Swift 4.1

thanks,

Jason.

Alex Busu
Alex Busu
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Alex Busu
Alex Busu
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What's even more annoying is when I declare the enum cases because the name is one capitalized letter different between the case and the image file it's constantly trying to add the image file to the enum which is soo annoying.

Amer Khalid
Amer Khalid
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Amer Khalid
Amer Khalid
11,533 Points

Same here, went through all setting in xcode, cannot get it to show.

Josh Gonet
Josh Gonet
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Josh Gonet
Josh Gonet
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Not sure if it's due to Swift 5 being the latest version that works with this, but the below worked for me - 

extension Story {
    var artwork: UIImage {
        switch self {
        case .returnTrip:
            return UIImage(imageLiteralResourceName: "ReturnTrip")
        case .touchDown:
                return UIImage(imageLiteralResourceName: "TouchDown")
        case .homeward:
            return UIImage(imageLiteralResourceName: "Homeward")
        case .rover:
            return UIImage(imageLiteralResourceName: "Rover")
        case .cave:
            return UIImage(imageLiteralResourceName: "Cave")
        case .crate:
            return UIImage(imageLiteralResourceName: "Crate")
        case .monster:
            return UIImage(imageLiteralResourceName: "Monster")
        case .droid:
            return UIImage(imageLiteralResourceName: "Droid")
        case .home:
            return UIImage(imageLiteralResourceName: "Home")
        }
    }
}

The imageLiteralResourceName keyword was needed each time.

4 Answers

Xavier D
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Xavier D
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Xavier D
Xavier D
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As an alternative to the options already provided here, you can just add a single line comment at the end of each case to describe the name of each image literal, since Xcode appears to no longer provide the names of image literals...

extension Story
{
    var artwork: UIImage
    {
        switch self
        {
            case .returnTrip: return #imageLiteral(resourceName: "ReturnTrip") // returns an image literal named ReturnTrip
            case .touchDown: return #imageLiteral(resourceName: "TouchDown") // returns an image literal named TouchDown
            case .homeward: return #imageLiteral(resourceName: "Homeward") // "" "" "" named Homeward
            case .rover: return #imageLiteral(resourceName: "Rover") // "" "" "" named Rover
            case .cave: return #imageLiteral(resourceName: "Cave") // "" "" "" "" Cave
            case .crate: return #imageLiteral(resourceName: "Crate") // "" "" "" "" Crate
            case .monster: return #imageLiteral(resourceName: "Monster") // "" "" "" "" Monster
            case .droid: return #imageLiteral(resourceName: "Droid") // "" "" "" "" Droid
            case .home: return #imageLiteral(resourceName: "Home") // "" "" "" "" named Home
        }
    }
}

FYI, if you cut and paste a line of code from Xcode into your post like how I did above, you'll notice that the image literal is substituted out and replaced with:

#imageLiteral(resourceName: "ReturnTrip")

And, if your tried to enter the substitution text into Xcode, it will be replaced by the corresponding image literal without its name, thus I felt it's best to use a single-line comment if you need to describe the name of the image literal for that case.

Jesse Gay
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Jesse Gay
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Jesse Gay
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Jesse Gay
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It seems autocomplete for image literals was removed from Xcode in Xcode 10 and Swift 4.2. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51397347/xcode-10-image-literals-no-longer-available

Even when trying to type in #imageLiteral(resourceName: "ReturnTrip") I'm getting some strange autocomplete behavior in which as soon as I start typing re (for resource...), it deletes #imageLiteral(r (i.e. what's left is esourceName: "ReturnTrip")) There's some other strange autocomplete behavior as well. I'm on Version 10.1 (10B61)

If you comment out your code, you can type it in properly (without Autocomplete messing with it), then uncomment when you're done.

Lisa Vega
Lisa Vega
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Lisa Vega
Lisa Vega
5,736 Points

I was bothered by this so I rewrote this section of code as follows: enum Story: String { case ReturnTrip case TouchDown case Homeward case Rover case Cave case Crate case Monster case Droid case Home }

extension Story { var artwork: UIImage { guard let artwork = UIImage(named: self.rawValue) else { fatalError() } return artwork } }