write text on image view image

Question

Currently, I am developing an App in which I have a Image view on which image are constantly

changes after some time. Now I want that I am able to write some text or draw any symbol

,simple line,cross line means to say drawing on image appears in image view. Means I want to

add text or drawing some symbols or lines e.t.c on image. I am searching everywhere but can't

find any solution. How can I solve this? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You have two options.

1. Add a UILabel as the subview of imageView and set the backgroundcolor of UILabel to clear color.

2. Implement the following method, which takes image and text as argument and returns the text added image.

   //Add text to UIImage

   -(UIImage *)addText:(UIImage *)img text:(NSString *)text1
   {
   
   int w = img.size.width;
   
   int h = img.size.height; 
   
   //lon = h - lon;
   
   CGColorSpaceRef colorSpace = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB();
   
   CGContextRef context = CGBitmapContextCreate(NULL, w, h, 8, 4 * w, colorSpace, kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedFirst);
   
   
   
   CGContextDrawImage(context, CGRectMake(0, 0, w, h), img.CGImage);
   
   CGContextSetRGBFillColor(context, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1);
   
   char* text  = (char *)[text1 cStringUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];// "05/05/09";
   
   CGContextSelectFont(context, "Arial", 18, kCGEncodingMacRoman);
   
   CGContextSetTextDrawingMode(context, kCGTextFill);
   
   CGContextSetRGBFillColor(context, 255, 255, 255, 1);
   
   
   
   //rotate text
   
   CGContextSetTextMatrix(context, CGAffineTransformMakeRotation( -M_PI/4 ));
   
   CGContextShowTextAtPoint(context, 4, 52, text, strlen(text));
   
   CGImageRef imageMasked = CGBitmapContextCreateImage(context);
   
   CGContextRelease(context);
   
   CGColorSpaceRelease(colorSpace);
   
   return [UIImage imageWithCGImage:imageMasked];
   
   }
   

Reference : http://iphonesdksnippets.com/post/2009/05/05/Add-text-to-image-%28UIImage%29.aspx

Answer 2

See if this works :

//Add text to UIImage

-(UIImage *)addText:(UIImage *)img text:(NSString *)text1{

    int w = img.size.width;

    int h = img.size.height; 

    //lon = h - lon;

    CGColorSpaceRef colorSpace = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB();

    CGContextRef context = CGBitmapContextCreate(NULL, w, h, 8, 4 * w, colorSpace, kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedFirst);



    CGContextDrawImage(context, CGRectMake(0, 0, w, h), img.CGImage);

    CGContextSetRGBFillColor(context, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1);

    char* text  = (char *)[text1 cStringUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];// "05/05/09";

    CGContextSelectFont(context, "Arial", 18, kCGEncodingMacRoman);

    CGContextSetTextDrawingMode(context, kCGTextFill);

    CGContextSetRGBFillColor(context, 255, 255, 255, 1);



    //rotate text

    CGContextSetTextMatrix(context, CGAffineTransformMakeRotation( -M_PI/4 ));

    CGContextShowTextAtPoint(context, 4, 52, text, strlen(text));

    CGImageRef imageMasked = CGBitmapContextCreateImage(context);

    CGContextRelease(context);

    CGColorSpaceRelease(colorSpace);

    return [UIImage imageWithCGImage:imageMasked];

}