I’d like to make a glowing text that looks like if it was shining or emmitting light. Actually this would be done with some blurryness in the background. But I’ve found nothing in the iPhone SDK that would do it.
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I’d like to make a glowing text that looks like if it was shining or emmitting light. Actually this would be done with some blurryness in the background. But I’ve found nothing in the iPhone SDK that would do it.
You can do this using pure Quartz drawing. Within -drawRect: for a UIView or -renderInContext: for a CALayer, the following code will draw text and apply a glow around it:
where text is an NSString, and glowColor is a CGColorRef for the glow you want to apply. This example will draw a glow that extends out 20 pixels from the 16-point Helvetica text, and is centered on the text.
You can easily convert this into a shadow by providing a different displacement (second argument in the first function) and by using a black CGColor for the shadow.