Chapter 3 Using Quartz 2D in Cocoa
Quartz 2D provides the foundation for Cocoa drawing. Cocoa 2D graphics facilities are built on top of Quartz 2D, and the Cocoa imaging model is that of Quartz 2D. Applications that use the Cocoa framework can use the Cocoa drawing methods that are built on top of Quartz and can call Quartz 2D directly as well. Most of this book discusses using Quartz directly rather than the Cocoa drawing methods that are built on top of Quartz. This chapter is no exception, but you will see how to call Quartz from the Cocoa framework.
Cocoa is a rich object-oriented programming toolkit. Programming in Cocoa requires knowledge of object-oriented programming techniques and the Objective-C language. This chapter does not teach ...
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