On Aug 9, 2011, at 9:48 AM, Gabriel Zachmann wrote: > Thanks a lot for your response ... > >> I've found the Core Graphics text handling methods to be gnarly and awkward >> the few times I've attempted to use them, and always ended up going some >> other route to render text. > > Could you please point me to a few of them? > >> >> In your case, the choice seems simple - just use CATextLayer. Why not? > > Can CATextLayer render text with a shadow? > Like this: > CGContextSetShadowWithColor( ctxt, CGSizeMake(0,0), 10, blue ); > > I really need the shadow to be able to discern it from a background layer, > the color of which is unknown and changes fairly often.
CATextLayer is a subclass of CALayer, which has a wide variety of shadowing options: /** Shadow properties. **/ /* The color of the shadow. Defaults to opaque black. Colors created * from patterns are currently NOT supported. Animatable. */ @property CGColorRef shadowColor; /* The opacity of the shadow. Defaults to 0. Specifying a value outside the * [0,1] range will give undefined results. Animatable. */ @property float shadowOpacity; /* The shadow offset. Defaults to (0, -3). Animatable. */ @property CGSize shadowOffset; /* The blur radius used to create the shadow. Defaults to 3. Animatable. */ @property CGFloat shadowRadius; /* When non-null this path defines the outline used to construct the * layer's shadow instead of using the layer's composited alpha * channel. The path is rendered using the non-zero winding rule. * Specifying the path explicitly using this property will usually * improve rendering performance, as will sharing the same path * reference across multiple layers. Defaults to null. Animatable. */ @property CGPathRef shadowPath; So not only does it have a shadow that you can change, you can even animate the shadow. Glenn Andreas gandr...@gandreas.com The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents - HPL _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
