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How do I draw the title of a UIButton when subclassing it?
I need to subclass the UIButton class because of a custom drawRect method for drawing the button.
I believe that I have to draw the title inside the drawRect method, do I see that correctly?
It is better (and advised by Apple) not to subclass UIButton if you can. Most custom appearances can be achieved by setting a background image to a standard “custom” button. This way you still get the functionality of resizing, the label, the image etc. without needing to subclass. A button has a background image, an image and a title label – how and by what these components are drawn is not publicly available.
If the image is derived at run time, you can still use the above technique, but draw in a new graphics context, extract the image and use that instead.
If you really must use a drawRect method, I’d subclass UIControl rather than UIButton.