Creating a UIImage from a rotated UIImageView...
- by Magic Bullet Dave
I have a UIImageView with an image in it. I have rotated the image prior to display by setting the transform property of the UIImageView to CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(angle) where angle is the angle in radians.
I want to be able to create another UIImage that corresponds to the rotated version that I can see in my view.
I am almost there, by rotating the image context I get a rotated image:
- (UIImage *) rotatedImageFromImageView: (UIImageView *) imageView
{
UIImage *rotatedImage;
// Get image width, height of the bonuding rectangle
CGRect boundingRect = [self getBoundingRectAfterRotation: imageView.bounds byAngle:angle];
// Create a graphics context the size of the boundinf rectangle
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(boundingRect.size);
CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
// Rotate and translate the context
CGAffineTransform ourTransform = CGAffineTransformIdentity;
ourTransform = CGAffineTransformConcat(ourTransform, CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(angle));
CGContextConcatCTM(context, ourTransform);
// Draw the image into the context
CGContextDrawImage(context, CGRectMake(0, 0, imageView.image.size.width, imageView.image.size.height), imageView.image.CGImage);
// Get an image from the context
rotatedImage = [UIImage imageWithCGImage: CGBitmapContextCreateImage(context)];
// Clean up
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
return rotatedImage;
}
However the image is not rotated about its centre. I have tried all kinds of transforms concatenated with my rotate to get it to rotate around the centre but to no avail. Am I missing a trick? Is this even possible since I am rotating the context not the image?
Getting desperate to make this work now, so any help would be appreciated.
Dave
