Screen/font-independent CGRectMake? (for iOS)

Hi,
I'm designing an app whose UI is created programmatically. I've found tons of examples controlling the position and size of controls through CGRectMake.
However, I believe this is not what I want, because CGRectMake uses "hard-coded" values for width and height that ignore things like the screen resolution, or the system font.
What I want is a way for programmatically creating a control so that its initial size is automatically adjusted so that the control has an initial beautiful appearance. So, it should be independent of both the device resolution and the system font.
Is there some place I should look at?
TIA

just.do.it wrote:
First, all coordinates in CGRectMake are points not pixels. So you can provide the same values on devices with "normal" displays and devices with retina displays.
Second, there's a method "sizeToFit" which can be used to adjust the controls size to it's content. For example you can create an UILabel, set it's font and text-property and than call [myLabel sizeToFit] to adjust it's width and height as needed for the current font / text.
Dirk
Thanks a lot, Dirk. One more question, though: I've searched for "sizeToFit", and I've read that it's currently implemented for UILabel only, while this method does nothing for buttons or sliders, and you've to override the method with your own implementation if you want it to work for such controls. Is that true? If affirmative, I think it's quite non-obvious to estimate the accurate minimum bounding box for a button, slider, etc, because they're not just the text label, but also graphics items, whose exact style may change accross iOS releases.
In other words, I believe my question could be reformulated like this: Is it possible to estimate the minimum bounding box for a UIButton, or a slider, or whatever, with a known label ("Push this button", for example) ? How?

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