Tool that might be helpful - http://www.paintcodeapp.com/ - for drawing
custom CG shapes. It outputs MonoTouch/C# code
http://blog.xamarin.com/2012/06/06/meet-our-new-favorite-design-tool-paintcode/but
does cost $99 to buy the full version.

Just FYI...

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Chris_M <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> My stakeholders now want an HTML-style image map -- a map of counties
> divided into regions, where tapping on a region brings up a list of
> counties
> in that region (I already have all that functionality working as a table
> view. The image map idea is pretty good, though.) The regions, each one a
> collection of counties, is like a jigsaw puzzle piece in outline.
>
> I have a public domain map of all the counties in question. What I'd like
> to
> do is use the map image (with each region having a different fill color for
> all the counties in that region) and then draw the region outline using
> Core
> Graphics custom drawn shapes with a transparent stroke and fill, and then
> use an appropriate event handler when a shape is tapped.
>
> I have a couple concerns about this approach. First, I've only used images
> in images views and custom buttons so far, and I've drawn shapes with
> simple
> CG techniques. But I don't know how to combine a UIImageView with a CG
> drawing context. Is there a way to do that and then draw the shapes over
> the
> image view? Or do I need to place the image in the CG drawing and then draw
> the shapes over that image? How is that done?
>
> My second concern is drawing the region shapes themselves. I'm envisioning
> a
> lot of painstaking point-by-point trial and error between the code and the
> simulator for review. (I'm doing everything programmatically and not using
> IB at all in this project.) Is there an easier way to go about this?
>
>
> --Chris
>
>
>
>
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