drawRect:rect how to call this method , I am using to draw a string

Question

-(void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect
{   

CGContextRef  context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
CGContextSelectFont(context, "Arial", 24, kCGEncodingFontSpecific);
CGContextSetTextPosition(context,80,80);
CGContextShowText(context, "hello", 6);
//not even this works
CGContextShowTextAtPoint(context, 1,1, "hello", 6);
}

I want to kn ow how to call above method, i have paste above code in the implemntation file simply, but dont know why its not called when i execute the project, can some one

Answer 1

setNeedsDisplay should do that for you, here is a link link text

The methods is also called when the view first displays...

Answer 2

Finally I got the anser, just take a new class and inherit the class with UIView instead of NSobject,

This class will give us UIView object and it will also contain the drawRect method inbuilt.

so this is How i done. it :)