Image Cropping grabbing the wrong portion of UIImage during crop - swift

Question

I've been working on making a view controller that will crop an image down to a specific size with some draggable control points and the background image outside of the crop zone dimmed.
For some reason whenever the image is cropped, it is grabbing the wrong reference. I've looked at just about every other post on this to deal with cropping.
Here is my setup for the Storyboard:
I've asked a few other people including a tutor and mentor from a course that I'm taking, but we all seem to be stumped.
I can select a frame by dragging the UL UR DL DR corners around the view controller like this:
But when I press the button and use the crop function I've written, I get something that is not the correct crop based on the framed selection.
I also get this error message during the cropping proceedure:
2016-09-07 23:36:38.962 ImageCropView[33133:1056024]
<UIView: 0x7f9cfa42c730; frame = (0 0; 414 736); autoresize = W+H; layer = <CALayer: 0x7f9cfa408400>>'s window
is not equal to <ImageCropView.CroppedImageViewController: 0x7f9cfa43f9b0>'s view's window!
The offending part of the code must be somewhere in one of the functions below.
Here is the cropping function:
func cropImage(image: UIImage, toRect rect: CGRect) -> UIImage {
func rad(deg: CGFloat) -> CGFloat {
return deg / 180.0 * CGFloat(M_PI)
}
// determine the orientation of the image and apply a transformation to the crop rectangle to shift it to the correct position
var rectTransform: CGAffineTransform
switch image.imageOrientation {
case .Left:
rectTransform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(rad(90)), 0, -image.size.height)
case .Right:
rectTransform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(rad(-90)), -image.size.width, 0)
case .Down:
rectTransform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(rad(-180)), -image.size.width, -image.size.height)
default:
rectTransform = CGAffineTransformIdentity
}
// adjust the transformation scale based on the image scale
rectTransform = CGAffineTransformScale(rectTransform, UIScreen.mainScreen().scale, UIScreen.mainScreen().scale)
// apply the transformation to the rect to create a new, shifted rect
let transformedCropSquare = CGRectApplyAffineTransform(rect, rectTransform)
// use the rect to crop the image
let imageRef = CGImageCreateWithImageInRect(image.CGImage, transformedCropSquare)
// create a new UIImage and set the scale and orientation appropriately
let result = UIImage(CGImage: imageRef!, scale: image.scale, orientation: image.imageOrientation)
return result
}
Here are the functions to set and translate the mask view
func setTopMask(){
let path = CGPathCreateWithRect(cropViewMask.frame, nil)
topMaskLayer.path = path
topImageView.layer.mask = topMaskLayer
}
func translateMask(sender: UIPanGestureRecognizer) {
let translation = sender.translationInView(self.view)
sender.view!.center = CGPointMake(sender.view!.center.x + translation.x, sender.view!.center.y + translation.y)
// print(sender.translationInView(self.view))
sender.setTranslation(CGPointZero, inView: self.view)
// print("panned mask")
if sender.state == .Ended {
printFrames()
}
}
func setCropMaskFrame() {
let x = ulCorner.center.x
let y = ulCorner.center.y
let width = urCorner.center.x - ulCorner.center.x
let height = blCorner.center.y - ulCorner.center.y
cropViewMask.frame = CGRectMake(x, y, width, height)
setTopMask()
}

Answer 1

I know this was long time ago...Just a thought, I ran into similar problem and what I found is that the frames for cropping are most probably correct. The problem lies in the actual size of the picture you're trying to crop. I solved the issue by aligning sizes of my view which holds the picture, with the actual picture size (in points). Then the cropping area cropped what was selected. I know this is probably not a solution, just sharing my experience, hope it helps to turn on some lightbulbs :)