Drawing rotated text with NSString drawInRect

Question

I found this answer on how to draw rotated text with NSString drawInRect:, but I\'m not sure how it works since it only sort of works for me: https://discussions.apple.com/t

Answer 1

Thank for this post, and Chris's answer, and Arkadiusz's answer at another post.

Finally, I solve this problem by a UILabel subclass, named MyVerticalLabel, and make it draw vertical text.

@implementation MyVerticalLabel

// Only override drawRect: if you perform custom drawing.
// An empty implementation adversely affects performance during animation.
- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect {
    // Drawing code

    CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();

    CGAffineTransform transform = CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(-M_PI_2);
    CGContextConcatCTM(context, transform);
    CGContextTranslateCTM(context, -rect.size.height, 0);

    // The drawing rect should be applied with transform to.
    CGRect newRect = CGRectApplyAffineTransform(rect, transform);
    newRect.origin = CGPointZero;

    NSMutableParagraphStyle *textStyle = [[NSMutableParagraphStyle defaultParagraphStyle] mutableCopy];
    textStyle.lineBreakMode = self.lineBreakMode;
    textStyle.alignment = self.textAlignment;

    // Apply current label attributes for drawing function.
    NSDictionary *attributeDict =
    @{
      NSFontAttributeName : self.font,
      NSForegroundColorAttributeName : self.textColor,
      NSParagraphStyleAttributeName : textStyle,
      };
    [self.text drawInRect:newRect withAttributes:attributeDict];
}

@end