quartz-graphics

I'm trying to draw a shadow and a corner radius on an image. I can add them separately, but I've got no way to add both effects at the same time. I'm adding a shadow with: [layer setShadowOffset:CGSizeMake(0, 3)]; [layer setShadowOpacity:0.4]; [layer setShadowRadius:3.0f]; [layer setShouldRasterize:YES]; Here, layer is a CALayer of a UIView subclass. So this works whenever I set [layer setMasksToBounds:NO]; Now to add a corner radius I do this: [layer setCornerRadius:7.0f]; but I need to set MasksToBounds to YES in order for this to work: [layer setMasksToBounds:YES]; Is there anyway I can get

I have a very simple chunk of code that is designed to simulate keyboard events. The simple example below should type "Cz" - the shift key goes down, the c key goes down, c comes up and shift comes up. Then the z key goes down and up. It seems that sometimes the order gets muddled though. When I create a timer to call this routine every second, the output should be CzCzCzCz.... But here's what I get: CZcZCZCzczCzczCzczCZCZCzCz I'll run it again: CzCzCzCzCZCzCZCzCZCzCZCzCZCzCzCz Different. And equally wrong. The code: e1 = CGEventCreateKeyboardEvent(NULL, (CGKeyCode)56, true); CGEventPost

I need to draw an outline for a rounded rectangle. I know I can make lines and arcs, but maybe there is also a function for rounded rects? Instead of making your own path out of lines and arcs, you can use [UIBezierPath bezierPathWithRoundedRect:cornerRadius:] or [UIBezierPath bezierPathWithRoundedRect:byRoundingCorners:cornerRadii:] (the second one lets you specify which corners are rounded) Available in iOS 3.2 or later. There is no prepackaged way to this, you must combine arcs in order to do this, apples quartzdemo project shows the code to do this, here is a reference Quartz Demo and here