How do I get a UIView which displays text to behave like a UILabel when bounds change?

Question

I have a UIView in which I need to draw text in drawRect:

- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect {
    ...
    [@"some text" drawAtPoint:somePoint withFont:someFont];
    ...
}

Because the text requires special formatting, I cannot just use a UILabel.

It looks fine until I rotate the device. Then the size of my custom UIView changes, and the text becomes stretched in one direction and squished in the other.

When I replace my view with a UILabel, the text always looks great, even when the bounds of the view changes.

How can I get my view to exhibit the same behavior as UILabel?

Some things I have looked into, but have yet to have success with:

• Set the view's layer's needsDisplayOnBoundsChange to YES.
• Set the view's contentStretch to CGRectZero.
• Call setNeedsDisplay in my view's layoutSubviews.

Maybe I'm not doing one of these things right. Has anyone else run into this?

Answer 1

Try setting the contentMode property of your view to UIViewContentModeRedraw.