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## UILabelCustom.h #import <UIKit/UIKit.h> @interface UILabelCustom : UILabel { CGFontRef customFont; int customFontMagicNumber; } -(void) loadCustomFont:(NSString *)font Type:(NSString *)type MagicNumber:(int)number; @end ## UILabelCustom.m #import "UILabelCustom.h" @implementation UILabelCustom - (void) loadCustomFont:(NSString *)font Type:(NSString *)type MagicNumber:(int)number { // Get the path to our custom font and create a data provider. NSString *fontPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:font ofType:type]; CGDataProviderRef fontDataProvider = CGDataProviderCreateWithFilename([fontPath UTF8String]); // Create the font with the data provider, then release the data provider. customFont = CGFontCreateWithDataProvider(fontDataProvider); CGDataProviderRelease(fontDataProvider); customFontMagicNumber = number; // Create the matrix to flip any text drawn to a readable orientation. CGAffineTransform textTransform = CGAffineTransformMake(1.0, 0.0, 0.0, -1.0, 0.0, 0.0); self.transform = textTransform; } - (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect { // Get the context. CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext(); // Set the customFont to be the font used to draw. CGContextSetFont(context, customFont); // Set how the context draws the font, what color, how big. CGContextSetTextDrawingMode(context, kCGTextFillStroke); CGContextSetRGBFillColor(context, 254.0/255.0, 245.0/255.0, 111.0/255.0, 1.0); CGContextSetRGBStrokeColor(context, 193.0/255.0, 154.0/255.0, 0.0/255.0, 1.0); CGContextSetFontSize(context, rect.size.height-1); // tweak this CGContextSetCharacterSpacing(context,3.0); // tweak this CGContextSetShadow(context,CGSizeMake(4,4),3.5); // tweak this // Create an array of Glyph's the size of text that will be drawn. int textLength = [self.text length]; CGGlyph textToPrint[textLength]; // Loop through the entire length of the text. for (int i = 0; i < textLength; ++i) { // Store each letter in a Glyph and subtract the MagicNumber to get appropriate value. textToPrint[i] = [self.text characterAtIndex:i] - customFontMagicNumber; // Default = 23; } // Perform a rough centering of the text... should calculate the glyph bounding boxes but... CGContextShowGlyphsAtPoint (context,x,8,textToPrint,textLength); } -(void)dealloc { [super dealloc]; } @end ## Usage UILabelCustom *myLabel = [[UILabelCustom alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 94, 25)]; [myLabel loadCustomFont:@"MYCUSTOMTTF" Type:@"TTF" MagicNumber:38]; // Include the TTF in your bundle myLabel.text = [player uppercaseString]; myLabel.center = playerLabelCenterPoint; myLabel.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor]; [self myLabel]; [myLabel release];

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