Something along the line of [self convertPoint:aPoint fromView:nil] should do 
the trick, if you’re very sure that the points were global.  Hope it helps.

-ev

On Jun 7, 2011, at 05:51, Development wrote:

> Hmm... it looks like it does draw the line... way off in the ether 
> somewhere...
> I think I drew in the global coord system not the local to the view
> 
> On Jun 6, 2011, at 2:37 PM, David Duncan wrote:
> 
>> On Jun 6, 2011, at 2:31 PM, Development wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm really loosing faith in my ability to read simple english
>>> 
>>> 
>>> According to like a million examples... If I place the follow bit of code 
>>> in a view's drawRect: method I should get a line from pointA to pointB 
>>> however I get nothing.
>>> How can subclassing UIView be this difficult? I have turned off clips to 
>>> bounds, set the stroke color to black and done basically everything I know 
>>> to do but I get an empty path
>>> 
>>> 
>>>  CGContextRef context    = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
>>> 
>>>  CGContextSetStrokeColorWithColor(context, self.strokeColor.CGColor);
>>>  CGContextBeginPath(context);//According to most examples this is a waste 
>>> of code
>>> 
>>>  // Draw them with a 2.0 stroke width so they are a bit more visible.
>>>  CGContextSetLineWidth(context, 2.0);
>>> 
>>>  CGContextMoveToPoint(context, pointA.x,pointA.y); //start at this point
>>> 
>>>  CGContextAddLineToPoint(context,pointB.x, pointB.y); //draw to this point
>>> 
>>>  // and now draw the Path!
>>>  CGContextStrokePath(context);
>> 
>> 
>> What is pointA & pointB? What is self.strokeColor? Assuming this is 
>> happening within -drawRect:, it should work just fine.
>> --
>> David Duncan
>> 
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