UIImageView shadow not working

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Am not sure where an wrong. I have an UIImageView in Storyboard, which am connecting with an IBOutlet to the code. I want to add a shadow (during runtime) to the UIImageView. And am using this code snippet for that (got this help from a stackoverflow post) :

-(void) awakeFromNib { 
    self.imageViewTopBar.layer.shadowColor = [UIColor blueColor].CGColor;
    self.imageViewTopBar.layer.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0, 5);
    self.imageViewTopBar.layer.shadowOpacity = 1.0;
    self.imageViewTopBar.layer.shadowRadius = 3.0;
        //self.imageViewTopBar.layer.masksToBounds = YES;
    //self.imageViewTopBar.clipsToBounds = NO;
    self.imageViewTopBar.layer.shouldRasterize = YES;
}

but it simply doesn't work. Any help please? I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work.

My environment : XCode 4.5.2, iOS 5, iPhone 4

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

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You should use -viewDidLoad to do this, check out this post: Accessing View in awakeFromNib?

edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

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answered Nov 28 '12 at 19:59

Daniel

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 28 '12 at 19:59

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Try putting it into viewDidLoad. I assume you've included the quartzcore framework. I think it would throw compiler error if not...

answered Nov 28 '12 at 19:59

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 28 '12 at 21:29

Do you have checked, in the xib, clipToBounds to YES?

If YES you should uncheck the clipToBounds and reorganize your view hierarchy.

Normally when i have an imageView with a shadow i use this hierarchy

(aImageView)   ClipToBounds=YES
     |
     |
   (aView)     Shadow setted here
     |
     |
 (Superview)

aView has the same frame size of the aImageView

UIImageView shadow not working

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