Drawing text on a UIView

[baswell]

I am using a UIView to create some graphs (pie charts and bar graphs), which is easy enough.

But now I want to add some labels to these graphs, which is where I am stuck.

CGContextShowTextAtPoint() (and all the stuff leading up to its call) doesn't seem to work (shows no text) and I read it is not the recommended way of doing things anyway.

What is the recommended way of doing this and can someone point me to some examples?

Cheers,
Bas.

[Pyrofer]

Cant you just use a normal UILabel and add it to the view as a subview?

UILabel *newlabel=@"text here";
[existingView addSubView:newlabel];

[PhoneyDeveloper]

This link has a bit of code for drawing text

Exploring iPhone Graphics Part 1 | Trails in the Sand

[baswell]

Guys, thanks for the replies. I did find the trails in the sand code using google, but as that was doing pretty much the same thing as the example in the Apple docs I didn't try it verbatim. I should have as the reason the Apple code wasn't working was because the iPhone doesn't have the font they were using ("Times-Bold") - change it to helvetica and my code just worked. How frustrating! SelectFont doesn't have a return status to tell you it can't find the find nor does it crap out...

I'll try the UILabel thing a go as well, it could be friendlier to use than Quartz text.

Cheers,
Bas.