How to make a UIView with optional rounded corners and border?

Question

I am applying corner radius to a UIView i.e. UIRectCornerTopLeft and UIRectCornerTopRight. When I apply this, the border is gone at t

Answer 1

Unless there is some specific requirement which we're not aware of, the bezier path and mask are unnecessary if all you're trying to do is round the corners and have a border. I would normally just do this: myView.layer.borderWidth=2; myView.layer.cornerRadius=5;

Is it that you only want the top corners rounded that you need to not use the layer rounding? If so, why not use that and then overlay a thin view to cover the bottom bit? A bit fiddly, but I find that the more you can rely on the standard controls to draw themselves rather than having to step into core graphics, the better.

Edit: ok, given that it needs to have the bottom corners not rounded, how about if you had a category on UIView with 2 subviews: 1 with 4 rounded corners and another layed over the top (self bringSubviewToFront) which simply covers the rounded view's "footer" with a non-rounded strip, ie a view with equal width and tiny height which is equal to the rounded corner radius. If you have a solid color background then just make both subviews the same; if you have some texture or image background, make them both transparent and put the texture/image on the super view (the parent view who is using your category's specific layout method). Then finally, put the border on that same superview. Should work, let me know what you think.