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Doug Smith
Doug Smith

Reputation: 29326

Trying to give UILabel a shadow, but it won't show up

I'm trying to give a label in one of the classes in my app a drop shadow, but it's not working at all. Nothing shows up. What am I doing wrong?

// Set label properties
titleLabel.font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:TITLE_FONT_SIZE];
titleLabel.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = NO;
titleLabel.opaque = YES;
titleLabel.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
titleLabel.textColor = titleLabelColor;
titleLabel.shadowColor = [UIColor blackColor];
titleLabel.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(10, 10);

It's just white, no shadow.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 13790

Answers (3)

Vaibhav Saran
Vaibhav Saran

Reputation: 12908

i hope you are aware of categories?

Creating a category will be better option:

Command + N > Objective-C Category > Category = Animation & Category on = UIView This will create 2 files with name UIView+Animation.h and UIView+Animation.m

UIView+Animation.h file

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h>

@interface UIView (Animation)
- (void)setBackgroundShadow:(UIColor *)shadowColor CGSize:(CGSize)CGSize shadowOpacity:(float)shadowOpacity shadowRadius:(float)shadowRadius;
@end

UIView+Animation.m file

#import "UIView+Animation.h"

@implementation UIView (Animation)
- (void)setBackgroundShadow:(UIColor *)shadowColor CGSize:(CGSize)CGSize shadowOpacity:(float)shadowOpacity shadowRadius:(float)shadowRadius
{
    self.layer.shadowColor = shadowColor.CGColor;
    self.layer.shadowOffset = CGSize;
    self.layer.shadowOpacity = shadowOpacity;
    self.layer.shadowRadius = shadowRadius;
    self.clipsToBounds = NO;
}

Import UIView+Animation.h in any of your viewController and call it like this:

[self.titleLabel  setBackgroundShadow:[UIColor grayColor] CGSize:CGSizeMake(0, 5) shadowOpacity:1 shadowRadius:5.0];

Upvotes: 3

Ajay Chaudhary
Ajay Chaudhary

Reputation: 1991

Just Add this line to before adding titleLabel to self.view

 titleLabel.layer.masksToBounds = NO;

Good Luck !!

Upvotes: 13

m4n1c
m4n1c

Reputation: 127

Just make sure that you allocate the UILabel and also set a frame for the label. And also make sure that view is added to the subview. Something like this:

    titleLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(100, 100, 100, 30)];
    titleLabel.font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:14];
    titleLabel.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = NO;
    titleLabel.opaque = YES;
    titleLabel.text = @"My Label";
    titleLabel.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
    titleLabel.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
    titleLabel.shadowColor = [UIColor blackColor];
    titleLabel.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(5, 5);
    [myView addSubview:titleLabel];
    [titleLabel release];

value 10 for shadow offset is quite big. You can tweak the values based on your requirements.

Upvotes: 0

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