How to draw an animatable ruler with Quartz2D?

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Published on 2010-03-28T12:07:20Z Indexed on 2010/03/28 12:13 UTC
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I'd like to draw the lines of a simple ruler with Quartz2D, just for practice.

Since I have no idea about doing vector graphics programmatically on the iPhone, maybe someone can point me to a good tutorial to get started?

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