Question

I am trying to capture (screen shot) a view. For that I am using a piece of code shown below that saves it to my document directory as a PNG image.

UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(highlightViewController.fhView.centerView.frame.size, YES, 1.0);
[self.view.layer renderInContext:UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()];
UIImage *screenshot = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
NSString *appFile = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"1.png"];
NSData *imageData = UIImagePNGRepresentation(screenshot);
[imageData writeToFile:appFile atomically:YES];
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

Question: can I capture part of the view? Because in the above code I can’t change the origin (frame). If anyone has other approach to capture a particular part of view please share it.

Answer 1

You could crop the image:
http://iosdevelopertips.com/graphics/how-to-crop-an-image.html

CGRect rect = CGRectMake(0,0,10,10);
CGImageRef imageRef = CGImageCreateWithImageInRect([screenshot CGImage], rect);
UIImage *croppedScreenshot = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:imageRef]; 
CGImageRelease(imageRef);