Dear Graham, dear Alex, dear Will,
thanks a lot for your helpful suggestions.
So far, I have written this code as a replacement for CGContextSelectFont().
I am putting it here for the record (i.e., Google's archives).
But if anyone could suggest modifications to make it better (e.g., remove a
bug, make it simpler, or more future proof),
I will greatly appreciate it.
Best regards,
Gabriel.
@implementation TextLayerDelegate
- (void) drawLayer: (CALayer *) theLayer inContext: (CGContextRef) ctxt
{
NSMutableString * mesg;
// fill mesg
// create font
NSDictionary *fontAttributes = [NSDictionary
dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
@"Andale Mono",
(NSString *) kCTFontFamilyNameAttribute,
@"Regular", (NSString
*) kCTFontStyleNameAttribute,
[NSNumber
numberWithFloat: 16.0],
(NSString *)
kCTFontSizeAttribute,
nil ];
// kCTFontStyleNameAttribute variants could be "Bold" "Semi-Bold" --
check in FontBook
CTFontDescriptorRef descriptor = CTFontDescriptorCreateWithAttributes(
(CFDictionaryRef) fontAttributes );
CTFontRef font = CTFontCreateWithFontDescriptor( descriptor, 0.0, NULL
);
CFRelease( descriptor );
// create an attributed string
CGColorRef textcolor = CGColorCreateGenericRGB( 0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 1.0 );
// color of the "shadow"
CFMutableDictionaryRef attributes = CFDictionaryCreateMutable(
kCFAllocatorDefault, 0,
&kCFTypeDictionaryKeyCallBacks,
&kCFTypeDictionaryValueCallBacks );
CFDictionaryAddValue( attributes, kCTFontAttributeName, font );
CFDictionaryAddValue( attributes, kCTForegroundColorAttributeName,
textcolor );
CFAttributedStringRef attrString = CFAttributedStringCreate(
kCFAllocatorDefault, (CFStringRef)mesg, attributes );
// offset from bottom left corner
float offset = 7.0f;
if ( theLayer.bounds.size.height > 900 )
offset = 15.0f;
// draw the string as one line
CTLineRef line = CTLineCreateWithAttributedString( attrString );
CGContextSetTextPosition( ctxt, theLayer.bounds.origin.x + offset,
theLayer.bounds.origin.y + offset );
CTLineDraw( line, ctxt );
// draw it again on top of it, with another color
CFRelease( textcolor );
textcolor = CGColorCreateGenericRGB( 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0 );
// color of the foreground text
CFDictionaryReplaceValue( attributes, kCTForegroundColorAttributeName,
textcolor );
CFRelease( attrString );
attrString = CFAttributedStringCreate( kCFAllocatorDefault,
(CFStringRef)mesg, attributes );
CFRelease( line );
line = CTLineCreateWithAttributedString( attrString );
CGContextSetTextPosition( ctxt, theLayer.bounds.origin.x + offset + 3,
theLayer.bounds.origin.y + offset + 3 );
CTLineDraw( line, ctxt );
// release everything that was constructed by a function that has
"Create" or "Copy" in it
CFRelease( attributes );
CFRelease( line );
CFRelease( attrString );
CFRelease( font );
CFRelease( textcolor );
[mesg release];
}
// this function gets called byway of the following in the main:
textLayer_ = [CALayer layer];
TextLayerDelegate * textlayer_delegate = [[TextLayerDelegate alloc]
initWith: self];
// ... set up this layer
[textLayer_ setNeedsDisplay];
[mainLayer_ addSublayer: textLayer_ ];
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