How to Use NSLog to Debug CGRect and CGPoint

时间：2023-03-09 03:58:09
How to Use NSLog to Debug CGRect and CGPoint

CGPoint and CGRect are structures (versus objects) and therefore the old NSLog standby %@ will not work as expected.

Here is how each structure is defined:

struct CGPoint {

   CGFloat x;

   CGFloat y;

};

typedef struct CGPoint CGPoint;

 

struct CGRect {

   CGPoint origin;

   CGSize size;

};

typedef struct CGRect CGRect;

If you attempt NSLog to use the traditional ‘print object’ notation such as this:

// Print point structure using NSLog

CGPoint cgPoint = CGPointMake(1, 11);

NSLog(@"%@", cgPoint);

the compiler will generate a warning: Format specifies type ‘id’ but the argument has type ‘CGPoint’ (aka ‘struct CGPoint’) 

Good news is, this is easy to fix:

NSLog(@"Point: %@", NSStringFromCGPoint(cgPoint));

The output of converting a CGPoint to an NSString looks as follows:

Point: {1, 11}

Output CGRect using NSLog

Likewise, CGRect is a structure and will also give NSLog troubles. The solution is similar:

// Print rect structure using NSLog

CGRect rect = CGRectMake(5, 5, 10, 10);

NSLog(@"Rect: %@", NSStringFromCGRect(rect));
 
Rect: {{5, 5}, {10, 10}}

CGRect, CFDictionaryRef and NSLog

When working with CGRect structures, there is another solution, you can convert the rect to a CFDictionaryRef and print as shown below:

NSLog(@"CFDictionaryRef: %@", CGRectCreateDictionaryRepresentation(rect));
 
CFDictionaryRef: {

    Height = 10;

    Width = 10;

    X = 5;

    Y = 5;

}

If for some reason you need to keep the dictionary object around, here is how you can so if you are using ARC:

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# Create reference to immutable CFDictionary

CFDictionaryRef currentListingRef = CGRectCreateDictionaryRepresentation(rect);

 

# Create Dictionary object managed by ARC

NSDictionary *dict = CFBridgingRelease(currentListingRef);

The code on line 5 moves the CGRef to and Objective-C object, and also hands the memory management over to ARC.

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