CGContextSelectFont equivalent

Question

In iOS7 CGContextSelectFont is deprecated. Deprecation message says that I have to use Core Text, but I don\'t know which is the exact equivalent of this piece of code:

Answer 1

As best I can understand from your code, the exact equivalent is:

CGContextSetTextDrawingMode(context, kCGTextFill); // This is the default
[[UIColor blackColor] setFill]; // This is the default
[@"Some text" drawAtPoint:CGPointMake(barX, barY)
           withAttributes:@{NSFontAttributeName:[UIFont fontWithName:@"Helvetica"
                                                                size:kBarLabelSize]
                            }];

Note that your calls to CGContextSetTextDrawingMode and CGContextSetRGBFillColor are setting the values to the defaults. Your call to CGContextSetTextMatrix is not needed when using UIKit drawing like this.

I have no idea what [barValue length] is here, however. I'm assuming that you simply incorrectly used this for the length of @"Some text". (length is not the number of bytes which is what you need. What you probably meant was [barValue lengthOfBytesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]).

Note that UIKit string drawing (seen here) wraps Core Text.