iphone - drawTextInRect on UITextField not called

Question

I'm trying to implement the answer to this SO question. The problem is: -[drawTextInRect] is apparently not called, and setting the shadow in -[drawRect] doesn't make the UITextField's text shadowed.

Another weird thing is that even if my subclass implementations of -[drawTextInRect] and -[drawRect] are completely empty (not even a call to super), the textfield's text is drawn.

Answer 1

This is a bug in the UITextField API documentation. The documentation indicates that overriding drawTextInRect: can be used to customize behaviour. This is not the case.

In fact, drawTextInRect: will never be called on an UITextField (drawPlaceholderInRect: will be called neither by the way).

See also http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1727596.

Overriding the method on UILabel works though.