Software Warlock » CoreGraphics http://softwareblog.morlok.net Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:34:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Cocoa/UIKit BulbView http://softwareblog.morlok.net/2009/06/18/cocoauikit-bulbview/ http://softwareblog.morlok.net/2009/06/18/cocoauikit-bulbview/#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:35:56 +0000 Warlock http://softwareblog.morlok.net/?p=281 In my continuing saga to bring old-school displays to new-school (word?) devices, I’ve created a “bulb view” that displays characters in a grid of “lights”. The best way to describe it is probably just to see it:

BulbView from Mac

BulbView from Mac

BulbView on iPhone

BulbView on iPhone

Like previous LCD view you can set the colors for the lit & dim bulbs, but improved from the LCD view, you can use letters, numbers, and most punctuation/special characters. Again the rendering is done in pure Quartz2D.

The source, including demo apps for both the Mac and iPhone, can be found here. With this view I was smart and made it conditionally compile various parts so that it can be used on either the iPhone or the Mac, without needing separate files.

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