Has any one of of us successfully done this? We’ve been trying to do this with CALayers for days now and it’s been monumentally unsuccessful.
Either we get one shadow on one layer and no shadows on any other added layer or no shadows at all. I’ll gladly post code, but we’ve been at this for way too long and with too many iterations.
We’ve been inserting and adding layers and it’s pretty odd just how this goes to extreme efforts not to produce any additional shadows.
Also, when inserting a CALayer at an index, the docs are really good at not stating what the layer stands for. Is it a Z-order? What does position 0 represent? Frontmost? Bottom? Nothing related to the above?
Thanks in advance. I’ve done this in Obj-C and Swift it’s amazing how hard it is to get a second layer to not replace the previous one and to get a shadow on both.
Here’s some Obj-C code that I am using to set a shadow.
If I take that code below and change it to add a shadow to a layer and return the layer, then insert or add it to the view, we get nothing but the code below works fine on its own.
alpha = 0.4;
x = 0;
y = 8.0;
blur = 10.0;
spread = 10.0; // 1
[self.box2 addShadowToView:color alpha:alpha x:x y:y blur:blur spread:spread];
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- (UIView *)addShadowToView:(UIColor *)color
alpha:(CGFloat)alpha
x:(CGFloat)x
y:(CGFloat)y
blur:(CGFloat)blur
spread:(CGFloat)spread
{
self.layer.masksToBounds = NO;
self.layer.needsDisplayOnBoundsChange = YES;
self.layer.shouldRasterize = YES;
self.layer.shadowColor = color.CGColor;
self.layer.shadowOpacity = alpha;
self.layer.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(x, y);
self.layer.shadowRadius = blur / 2 ; //UIScreen.mainScreen.scale;
if (spread == 0) {
self.layer.shadowPath = nil;
} else {
CGFloat deltaX = spread;
CGRect shadowRect = CGRectInset(self.bounds, deltaX, deltaX);
self.layer.shadowPath = CFBridgingRetain([UIBezierPath bezierPathWithRect: shadowRect]);
}
return self;
}
