Most effective way of drawing 4 lines in an iPhone app?

Question

basic question, but I'm unsure. Not looking for code as an answer.

I want to draw 4 short lines 1px lines on a view. What is the best way to approach this task? Options:-

• Load an image of the line, then create 4 UIImageViews with it.
• Create my own subclass of a UIView that draws a line in the draw rect method.
• Draw elsewhere on another view, another UIImageView that has an UIImage inside it (is this possible?)
• Another way?

Thanks Ross

Answer 1

Quick and dirty way to achieve this is to just create a UIView and set it's height (or width, depending on its orientation) to 1px, and then set a background colour and slap it onto your view as a subview.

Answer 2

Simplest way is to create a UIView subclass and perform your drawing in drawRect:. See the CoreGraphics guide for details on how to draw a line.