macos - On OSX, how do I gradient fill a path stroke?

Question

Using the plethora of drawing functions in Cocoa or Quartz it's rather easy to draw paths, and fill them using a gradient. I can't seem to find an acceptable way however, to 'stroke'-draw a path with a line width of a few pixels and fill this stroke using a gradient. How is this done?

Edit: Apparently the question wasn't clear enough. Thanks for the responses so far, but I already figured that out. What I want to do is this:

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The left square is NSGradient drawn in a path followed by a path stroke message. The right is what I want to do; I want to fill the stroke using the gradient.

Answer 1

If you convert the NSBezierPath to a CGPath, you can use the CGContextReplacePathWithStrokedPath() method to retrieve a path that is the outline of the stroked path. Graham Cox's excellent GCDrawKit has a -strokedPath category method on NSBezierPath that will do this for you without needing to drop down to Core Graphics.

Once you have the outlined path, you can fill that path with an NSGradient.