CGContextSetShadow() - shadow direction reversed between iOS 3.0 and 4.0?
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I've been using CGContextSetShadowWithColor()
in my Quartz drawing code on the iPhone to generate the "stomped in" look for text and other things (in drawRect:
and drawLayer:inContext:
).
Worked perfectly, but when running the exact same code against iOS 3.2 and now iOS 4.0 I noticed that the shadows are all in the opposite direction. E.g. in the following code I set a black shadow to be 1 pixel above the text, which gave it a "pressed in" look, and now this shadow is 1px below the text, giving it a standard shadow.
...
CGContextSetShadowWithColor(context, CGSizeMake(0.f, 1.f), 0.5f, shadowColor);
CGContextShowGlyphsAtPoint(context, origin.x, origin.y, glyphs, length);
...
Now I don't know whether I am (or have been) doing something wrong or whether there has been a change to the handling of this setting. I haven't applied any transformation that would explain this to me, at least not knowingly. I've flipped the text matrix in one instance, but not in others and this behavior is consistent. Plus I wasn't able to find anything about this in the SDK Release Notes, so it looks like it's probably me. What might be the issue?
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