I am developing an iOS application that comes pre-loaded with CoreData content.
I am trying to create an importer app for the Mac OS X command-line which uses the same xcdatamodel and imports the initial data that I can ship with the actual app.
So far, so good.
One of the fields in the model, however, is a transformable in which I want to store a Bezier path. Unfortunately, Mac OS X uses NSBezierPath while iOS uses UIBezierPath to store bezier paths.
Is there any way of using the binary UIBezierPath class (and its header file) from the iOS Simulator platform in my OS X project?
I don’t want to convert my project to run in the simulator because I want to be able to run it from the command-line and pass arguments.
There should be a way to make this work, shouldn’t there? Because the simulator platform is compiled for the Mac’s architecture and no GUI components are ever used.
I am also looking for other (creative?) ways to solve this problem… A custom NSValueTransformer, perhaps, or a reverse-engineering of UIBezierPath’s NSCoding adaptation?
Maybe I am just too narrow-minded, too focused on what will essentially turn out to be a futile attempt. Please feel free to point this out in your answer if you think it’s the case…
The library CKBezierPath emulates the NSBezierPath for iOS. Not tested, but give it a try. 😉