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iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide
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iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

by Joe Conway, Aaron Hillegass
March 2012
Intermediate to advanced
590 pages
22h 48m
English
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Core Graphics

The functions and types that begin with CG come from the Core Graphics framework, a C language API for 2D drawing. The hub of the Core Graphics framework is CGContextRef: all other Core Graphics functions and types interact with a drawing context in some way, and then the context creates an image.

Let’s look at the Core Graphics functions you used in the implementation of HypnosisView’s drawRect: method. You set up the drawing state with CGContextSetLineWidth and then set its color using CGContextSetRGBStrokeColor.

Next, you added a path to the context using CGContextAddArc. A path is a collection of points that forms a shape and can form anything from a square to a circle to a human outline. There are a number of Core Graphics ...

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