--- On Thu, 11/6/08, Development <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have been using masks and images as way to handle
> selection areas in a drawing program. It works fine for
> fills and other operations, but the dotted outline of a
> CGPath looks better as a selection.

Andy Finnell wrote a couple of very good articles on this a while back.

http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2007/08/28/how-to-implement-a-magic-wand-tool/
http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2007/08/29/an-alternate-way-to-implement-marching-ants/

The latter uses CoreImage directly on your mask to draw the dotted line, so 
it's probably a bit quicker than tracing the bitmap.

Cheers,
Chuck


      
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