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Size ranges in Visual Format

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Size ranges in Visual Format

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- While you can write two inequalities for a range with code there's one visual format language trick yet to show you. Head to the label view to format strings. You'll notice that the vertical one re-added some inequalities to it. Now we're using one image here. Suppose we would be displaying images in different sizes. I'd like to remain in a visible range. I could put more than one inequality in a view's size. Before I do, I'm going to change the metrics. I earlier talked about intrinsic content size, and I used other things that aren't as reliable, such as line height, and image view size height, which isn't optional and that's got all kinds of problems. So it's better to use here intrinsic content size. So I'm gonna get rid of this, and change this to label dot intrinsic content size dot height. And I'm also gonna change this image height to image view dot intrinsic content size dot height. Now I'm sure I'm getting the correct intrinsic content size. I know exactly what that image…

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