Archive for May 20th, 2010

Unless you’re a really serious CoreGraphics expert, there is almost certainly something to be learned here:

5 ways to draw a 2D shape with a hole in CoreGraphics

In this post, I look at 5 different ways that you can draw a very simple shape: a square with a triangular hole cut out of the center. In a drawing environment like CoreGraphics which offers double buffering, winding count path filling, even-odd path filling and clipping regions, there’s no single answer. An iPhone sample project is provided containing the code but all drawing functions are identical on the Mac…