Placing Strings at a specific point on images in objective C

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I'm trying to create an image made out of text in objective c, but I can't figure out how to put the text onto a new image. The basic idea is that it's going to be shapes made out of text, so I need to be able to specify points. Currently I am trying to do it with a bitmap, but the format doesn't really matter. I may be missing something simple, but any suggestions would be appreciated.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:06

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One approach is to render your text and other things to a custom UIView. After that, you can capture that UIView to a UIImage.

This answer on SO will help in terms of rendering the UIView to UIImage. There are various tutorials about rendering a custom UIView. You may just want to override a particular component as well such as overriding the UITextField.

For OSX, you'd want to look into NSView and NSImage - this answer may help.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:06

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I'm trying to make this for OSX. Is there an equivalent of UIView and UIImage that I can use? – SilentLupin Sep 08 '13 at 23:59
Take a look at NSView and NSImage. – yury.ku Sep 09 '13 at 12:43

Placing Strings at a specific point on images in objective C

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