[Drawkit] Tapering Cardinal Path

[Carlos Phillips]

Hi,

I wish to create cardinal paths with tapering width. To demonstrate
what I mean by tapered width, imagine that an arrow head is stretched
all the way along the path. I also wish to display text along the
tapered width of the path. I am not sure how to proceed.

>From my reading of the code, I get the feeling that the steps would go
as follows:

1) Create a DKDrawableCardinalPath class that inherits from DKDrawableObject.
The user interface for editing DKDrawableCardinalPath objects would be
similar to DKDrawablePath's handling of straight-line paths. Would it
be wise to subclass DKDrawablePath?

2) Create a DKTaperedStroke class that inherits from DKRasterizer.
Gets an NSBezierPath which contains only curve segments from the
DKDrawableObject. Create a tapered outline around this path.

Am I on the right track?

Will I have to render the text in DKTaperedStroke so that the text can
flow along the tapered stroke?

Thank you for any help that you can provide.

Carlos