Thanks, Craig! Just what the doctor ordered. I had heard of PaintCode but didn't realize what all it did.
Craig Dunn-2 wrote > > 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 <kungfuchris99@> 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 > _______________________________________________ > MonoTouch mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch > -- View this message in context: http://monotouch.2284126.n4.nabble.com/Trying-to-Create-HTML-Style-Image-Map-tp4656120p4656122.html Sent from the MonoTouch mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ MonoTouch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch
