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iphonetextcore-graphics
Krishna Chaitanya Bandaru
Krishna Chaitanya Bandaru

Reputation: 2059

draw text using coregraphics in iphone

How to draw text on imageview using coregraphics in iphone

Upvotes: 7

Views: 9790

Answers (2)

T Blank
T Blank

Reputation: 1418

TextImageView.h

@interface TextImageView : UIView

@property (nonatomic, strong) UIImage *image;
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSString *text;

@end

TextImageView.m

@implementation TextImageView

- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect
{
    [self.image drawInRect:self.bounds];
    [self.text drawInRect:self.bounds
           withAttributes:@{}];
}

@end

The method in the accepted answer has been deprecated. The method that you would want to use instead is - [NSString drawInRect:withAttributes:].

You are supposed to call this method from within the drawRect: method of a UIView subclass, but if you subclass UIImageView, drawRect: will never be called. (From the docs: "UIImageView does not call the drawRect: method of its subclasses.")

So, you really can't draw text on a UIImageView, but you can subclass UIView and have it draw an image with text on top as proposed above.

Upvotes: 0

AlexVogel
AlexVogel

Reputation: 10621

Either use a UILabel over your imageView or draw a string in the current graphics context with

- (CGSize)drawInRect:(CGRect)rect withFont:(UIFont *)font lineBreakMode:(UILineBreakMode)lineBreakMode

Upvotes: 25

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