IPhone OS Use custom font

Question

Hi Everyone.
I´m new here and I´ve sent lots of mail to the iPhone OS Team but with no success so I´m trying here hoping that someone could help out ...
What I´m trying to do should be simple, but its seems it´s not that simple.
in my iPhone App that I´m developing using the iPhone SDK I´m realy limited with the Fonts avaible on the Phone ... so I want to use a custom font in the App... A font that would be included in the Resource Bundle
I cant get this to work at all so please pleaase if anyone here could tell me and maybe outhers how this is done I would be so happy ...
here are some psudo code I´ve written that does not work but I think I´m on the right path ...
NSString* fontPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"Arial" ofType:@"ttf"];
CGDataProviderRef fontDataProvider = CGDataProviderCreateWithFilename(fontPath);
CGFontRef myfont = CGFontCreateWithDataProvider(fontDataProvider);
CGContextSetFont(context, myfont);
Please ....

Answer 1

Hello,
Has anybody been able to get this to work? I've tried combining this with the Quartz Guide's example on how to draw text and all I get is a blank screen. I even tried using the Quartz guide exactly without the custom font and it still doesn't work.
Here is my code: (But no text displays and no errors)
- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect {
CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
[self MyDrawText:context rect:rect];
- (void)MyDrawText:(CGContextRef)myContext rect:(CGRect)contextRect
float w, h;
w = contextRect.size.width;
h = contextRect.size.height;
CGAffineTransform myTextTransform; // 2
CGContextSelectFont (myContext, // 3
"Times-Bold",
h/10,
kCGEncodingMacRoman);
CGContextSetCharacterSpacing (myContext, 10); // 4
CGContextSetTextDrawingMode (myContext, kCGTextFillStroke); // 5
CGContextSetRGBFillColor (myContext, 0, 1, 0, .5); // 6
CGContextSetRGBStrokeColor (myContext, 0, 0, 1, 1); // 7
CGContextShowTextAtPoint (myContext, 40, 0, "Quartz 2D", 9); // 10
}