Short Text makes the code break about marqueelabel-swift HOT 13 CLOSED

//
//  ViewController.swift
//  word_swift
//
//  Created by Jonathan Arnold on 22.11.15.
//  Copyright © 2015 Jonathan Arnold. All rights reserved.
//

import C4
import UIKit
import CoreData
import Foundation
import QuartzCore
import AVFoundation

class ViewController: C4CanvasController, UITextFieldDelegate {
    @IBOutlet weak var textField: UITextField!

    var bigBannerStatic = UILabel()
    var bigBannerScrolling = MarqueeLabel()


    let screenSize: CGRect = UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds
    var screenWidth: CGFloat!
    var screenHeight: CGFloat!

    var string = ""


        override func setup() {
            canvas.backgroundColor = black


        }

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        screenWidth = screenSize.width
        screenHeight = screenSize.height


        NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: "orientationChanged", name:
            UIDeviceOrientationDidChangeNotification, object: nil)


        var color: UIColor = UIColor.grayColor()
        textField.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(string: "", attributes: [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: color])
        textField.delegate = self


        bigBannerScrolling.text = ""
        bigBannerScrolling.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, screenHeight, screenWidth)
        bigBannerScrolling.textAlignment = .Center
        bigBannerScrolling.font = UIFont.monospacedDigitSystemFontOfSize(screenWidth - 50, weight: UIFontWeightRegular)
        bigBannerScrolling.textColor = UIColor.whiteColor()

        bigBannerScrolling.type = .Continuous
        bigBannerScrolling.scrollDuration = 15.0
        bigBannerScrolling.fadeLength = 30.0
        bigBannerScrolling.animationDelay = 0.0
        bigBannerScrolling.leadingBuffer = 200.0
        bigBannerScrolling.textAlignment = .Left
        bigBannerScrolling.trailingBuffer = 200.0




        bigBannerStatic.text = ""
        bigBannerStatic.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, screenHeight, screenWidth)
        bigBannerStatic.textAlignment = .Center
        bigBannerStatic.font = UIFont.monospacedDigitSystemFontOfSize(screenWidth - 50, weight: UIFontWeightRegular)
        bigBannerStatic.textColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
        bigBannerStatic.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = true
        bigBannerStatic.numberOfLines = 0




        bigBannerScrolling.alpha = 0.0
        bigBannerStatic.alpha = 0.0



        view.addSubview(bigBannerScrolling)
        view.addSubview(bigBannerStatic)

        bigBannerScrolling.pauseLabel()

        // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.








    }


    override func viewDidAppear(animated: Bool) {
        textField.becomeFirstResponder()
    }


    func orientationChanged()
    {
        if(UIDeviceOrientationIsLandscape(UIDevice.currentDevice().orientation))
        {
            bigBannerScrolling.pauseLabel()

//            print("landscape")
            textField.resignFirstResponder()

            bigBannerStatic.text = textField.text
            bigBannerScrolling.text = textField.text

            string = bigBannerStatic.text!

            UIView.animateWithDuration(0.25, animations: {
//                self.bigBannerStatic.alpha = 1
                self.bigBannerScrolling.alpha = 1
                self.textField.alpha = 0
            })


            delay(0.6, closure: {
                self.bigBannerScrolling.unpauseLabel()
            })


            var textcountSpeed = bigBannerScrolling.text!.characters.count / 3
            bigBannerScrolling.scrollDuration = CGFloat(textcountSpeed)


//            sayHello()


        }

        if(UIDeviceOrientationIsPortrait(UIDevice.currentDevice().orientation))
        {
//            print("portrait")
            textField.becomeFirstResponder()


            UIView.animateWithDuration(0.25, animations: {
                self.bigBannerStatic.alpha = 0
                self.bigBannerScrolling.alpha = 0
                self.textField.alpha = 1
            })

            bigBannerScrolling.pauseLabel()


        }

    }

    func sayHello() {
        var utterance = AVSpeechUtterance(string: string)
        utterance.voice = AVSpeechSynthesisVoice(language: "en-US")
        utterance.rate = 0.25

        var set_language = "en-US"
        var voice = AVSpeechSynthesisVoice(language: set_language)

        // Check for language
        if (NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults().objectForKey("voice_language") == nil) {
            set_language = "de-DE"
            voice = AVSpeechSynthesisVoice(language: set_language)

            print("default")
        } else {
            print("yallla")
        }

        utterance.voice = voice

        var synthesizer = AVSpeechSynthesizer()
        synthesizer.speakUtterance(utterance)
    }

    func delay(delay:Double, closure:()->()) {
        dispatch_after(
            dispatch_time(
                DISPATCH_TIME_NOW,
                Int64(delay * Double(NSEC_PER_SEC))
            ),
            dispatch_get_main_queue(), closure)
    }



    override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
        super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
        // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
    }


}

// bigBannerScrolling.pauseLabel() — becomes:
bigBannerScrolling.holdScrolling = true

// bigBannerScrolling.unpauseLabel() — becomes:
bigBannerScrolling.holdScrolling = false