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A CATextLayer is a Core Animation layer for showing text. It allows the displaying of simple and attributed strings as well.

A CATextLayer is a Core Animation layer for showing text. It allows the displaying of simple and attributed strings as well by assigning a CFString or CFAttributedStringto its property string.

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CATextLayer ignores NSShadow?

I have a custom UIView that I've created that has several custom UIControl instances which are non-rectangular buttons (instead of using UIButton instances). I am doing this because I need to be able to draw non-rectangular buttons and have them…
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What to do with CATextLayer to have the same font displayed as the system font in UILabel?

When I use UILabel, I set the system font as: label.font = UIFont.systemFontOfSize(18, weight: UIFontWeightMedium) Now I try to use CATextLayer and I searched online and found out that the system font for iOS 9 is San Francisco and the font name is…
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CATextLayer + NSAttributtedString + CTParagraphStyleRef

I want to have some text with a custom line-spacing, so I wrote an attribute string with CTParagraphStyleAttributte and pass it to my CATextLayer: UIFont *font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:20]; CTFontRef ctFont =…
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AVMutableVideoComposition With CATextLayer Ending Up With No Text String

I'm trying to insert a text layer (CATextLayer) to a movie. To begin with, let me insert a text layer (CATextLayer) to a wired NSView object like let myLayer = CALayer() let textLayer = CATextLayer() let text = "Hello, Mr. Jordan. How are you…
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Figuring out the size of the textBox in a CATextLayer

I wrote this code, works well; but I need to figure out the size of the text in the CATextLayer to finish it? The idea I use from a tap gesture to get the x/y, enter the text and have it figure out the CGSize needed to draw it in the CATextLayer…
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how to add border outline stroke and fill stroke on CATextLayer text

Here is code, text1 =[[NSMutableAttributedString alloc]initWithAttributedString:t.string]; NSDictionary* attributes = @{(NSString*)kCTStrokeWidthAttributeName: @(-slider.value), …
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CATextLayer gets rasterized too early and it is blurred

I have some troubles with CATextLayer, that could be due to me, but I didn't find any help on this topic. I am on OS X (on iOS it should be the same). I create a CATextLayer layers with scale factor > 1 and what I get is a blurred text. The layer is…
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Drawn text on a CALayer does not appear or crashes at runtime

I have a CALayer on which I draw some stuff at first and then a text: - (void)drawInContext:(CGContextRef)context { CGContextSaveGState(context); // draw things, everything displays correctly ... CGSize expectedCreditSize =…
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Unwanted Vertical Padding from iOS 6 on CATextLayer

Background: I started my project in iOS 5 and built out a beautiful button with layer. I added a textLayer onto the button and center it using the following code: float textLayerVerticlePadding = ((self.bounds.size.height - fontSize) /2); …
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CATextLayer rotate?

This should really work, but is not: CATextLayer* textLayer = [CATextLayer layer]; textLayer.string = @"text"; [textLayer setValue:[NSNumber numberWithDouble:M_PI / 2.f forKey:@"transform.rotation"]; [self addSublayer:textLayer]; in fact, when i…
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Multiline CATextLayer with truncation

Is there a way to make a CATextLayer show the "..." if I have wrapped == YES?
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CATextLayer/NSAttributedString - Determine exact size of the shown text

I've got a CATextLayer with an NSAttributedString and I want to calculate the exact size of the visible/drawn text. I have tried this: http://www.taffysoft.com/pages/20120202-01.html But it gives the same result for the string "1" and "5", even if…
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Smooth scrolling UIScrollView with transparent CALayers

I'm working on an iPhone app which will be displaying large scrollable and zoomable surface containing a grid of pictures and text labels over them. I need to be able to change the position of pictures individually and control the opacity level of…
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Dynamically change text of CATextLayer

I've been banging my head off a wall trying to figure this problem out. I've added a CATextLayer to a CALayer and after a couple of operations happen i want to change the text of the CATextLayer to something different. Is there a simple way to do…
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don't reload/refresh Layer and CATextLayer (iphone)

I have layer and CATextLayer. I have code, e.g: CATextLayer *TextLayer = [CATextLayer layer]; TextLayer.bounds = CGRectMake(0.0f, 0.0f, 245.0f, 290.0f); TextLayer.string = randomText; …
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