drawInRect:withAttributes vs drawInRect:withFont:lineBreakMode:alignment

Question

I\'m working on a new version of my app and am attempting to replace deprecated messages, but am not able to get past this one.

I can\'t figure out why drawInRect:

Answer 1

To set the color of text you need to pass the NSForegroundColorAttributeName in the attribute as the additional parameter.

NSDictionary *dictionary = @{ NSFontAttributeName: self.font,
                              NSParagraphStyleAttributeName: paragraphStyle,
                              NSForegroundColorAttributeName: self.textColor};

Answer 2

I've made a UIView with drawRect: containing only the code you provided

- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)frame
{
    NSMutableParagraphStyle *textStyle = [[NSMutableParagraphStyle defaultParagraphStyle] mutableCopy];
    textStyle.lineBreakMode = NSLineBreakByWordWrapping;
    textStyle.alignment = NSTextAlignmentCenter;
    UIFont *textFont = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:16];

    NSString *text = @"Lorem ipsum";

    // iOS 7 way
    [text drawInRect:frame withAttributes:@{NSFontAttributeName:textFont, NSParagraphStyleAttributeName:textStyle}];

    // pre iOS 7 way
    CGFloat margin = 16;
    CGRect bottomFrame = CGRectMake(0, margin, frame.size.width, frame.size.height - margin);
    [text drawInRect:bottomFrame withFont:textFont lineBreakMode:NSLineBreakByWordWrapping alignment:NSTextAlignmentCenter];
}

I don't see any difference between the outputs of these two methods. Maybe the problem is somewhere else in your code?