Drawing Text

Just use Cocoa Text? Quartz is rather low level.

 

UIView implies this is on the iPhone so Cocoa Text is most likely not available. Of course the poster should have posted it in the correct place to start with.

 

Right, sorry, I missed that. He could still use NSString's drawInRect, which is available on iPhone. Not sure whether that qualifies as "Cocoa Text", though.

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/l...ring_UIKit_Additions/Reference/Reference.html

 

In that case, you can still use Cocoa Text. You'll have to set the current graphics context to your CGContext temporarily, with something like this:

Code:

NSGraphicsContext *current = [NSGraphicsContext currentContext]; // for restoration later on
NSGraphicsContext *nsContext = [NSGraphicsContext graphicsContextWithGraphicsPort:yourCGContextRef flipped:NO];
[NSGraphicsContext setCurrentContext:nsContext];

// your Cocoa drawing here
// [myNSString drawInRect ...];

[NSGraphicsContext setCurrentContext:current];

 

NSGraphicsContext is part of AppKit which is not available on the iPhone.

If you're using CGContextRef directly you can use the NSString drawing methods. But you probably need to use UIGraphicsPushContext() and UIGraphicsPopContext() before and after you call any UIKit drawing methods.