UIImageView和UIImage,CGContextRef 的一些知识点

1.UIImageView不支持内部图片平铺(tile)

2.资源中的图片要用小写的,模拟器中可能不区分大小写,但在真机中区分.

   [UIImage imageNamed:@""]; 在设备中区分大小写

3.UIView没有背景图属性,有背景色属性.设置背景图可以用addSubView(backgroundImage);，推荐的是设置背景色。

4.[UIImage imageNamed:@""];它是有缓存特性的

   + (UIImage *)imageWithContentsOfFile:(NSString *)path;  //does not cache the image object.

   imageNamed文档解释：

  This method looks in the system caches for an image object with the specified name and returns that object if it exists. If a matching image object is not already in the cache, this method loads the image data from the specified file, caches it, and then returns the resulting object.

  On a device running iOS 4 or later, the behavior is identical if the device’s screen has a scale of1.0. If the screen has a scale of2.0, this method first searches for an image file with the same filename with an@2x suffix appended to it. For example, if the file’s name isbutton, it first searches forbutton@2x. If it finds a 2x, it loads that image and sets thescale property of the returnedUIImage object to2.0. Otherwise, it loads the unmodified filename and sets thescale property to1.0.

   On iOS 4 and later, the name of the file is not required to specify the filename extension. Prior to iOS 4, you must specify the filename extension.

    可能在多次操作之后，应用经常发生内存警告从而导致自动退出的问题。定位之后发现是由于[UIImage imageNamed: @""]分配的图像都没有释放引起的。而之前从官方的reference中得到的信息应该是[UIImage imageNamed:@""]分配的图像系统会放到cache里面。而关于cache管理的规则就没有明确的介绍。由此看来[UIImage imageNamed:]只适合与UI界面中小的贴图的读取，而一些比较大的资源文件应该尽量避免使用这个接口。

 5. UIImage的 - (UIImage *)stretchableImageWithLeftCapWidth:(NSInteger)leftCapWidth topCapHeight:(NSInteger)topCapHeight

     指定两个方向上不被缩放的部分。

     对应的 rightCapWidth = image.size.width - (image.leftCapWidth + 1);

                bottomCapHeight = image.size.height - (image.topCapHeight + 1);

     leftCapWidth,rightCapWidth之间的，topCapHeight,bottomCapHeight之间的像素被平铺以达到缩放效果。

     另外UIView.contentStretch在这里好像不起作用。

      注意：使用这个函数时，要取它的返回值。并且 That method could return nil if the base image is less than 5 pixels wide or 5 pixels tall since it needs the 4 pixels for the caps + 1 pixel to stretch.

示例：设置导航栏上的自定义返回按钮