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May 18 2009

Major FontLabel update

Posted by: Lily Ballard in Cocoa, iPhone, tags: , , , ,

Last week I pushed out a major rewrite of FontLabel. This new version includes a category modeled after UIStringDrawing that enables you to draw text in custom fonts in your own drawRect: methods. It also includes accurate font metrics and uses more of the built-in UILabel properties. Contributions are welcome!

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2 Responses to “Major FontLabel update”
  1. Mike says: June 17th, 2009 at 12:05 pm

    I had to add this line ( if (table == NULL) return; ) when using fonts that use the magic number 29 otherwise I had a crash.

    static void freeFontTable(fontTable *table) {
    if (table == NULL) return;
    CFRelease(table->cmapTable);
    free(table);
    }

  2. Kevin Ballard says: June 17th, 2009 at 1:52 pm

    Ah hah, good catch. I don’t have any fonts that use the magic number 29 any more. I’ll see if I can’t get that put into the official repo today.