Thanks to all for the help.
i went with Mike's solution of swapping view.
I wrapped the IKImageBrowserView into a Tabless NSTabview with in the second
tab my "dropview".
I will also file the bug report as Mike suggested.
Thanks!
On Wednesday, November 25, 2009, at 03:34PM, "Mike Abdullah"
<cocoa...@mikeabdullah.net> wrote:
>
>On 25 Nov 2009, at 14:06, Florian Soenens wrote:
>
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> thanks for the reply, i did try the first method you suggest with adding a
>> layer but it didn't work either.
>> I also tought of the second method but how would i make sure that my
>> IKImageBrowserView still receives drop event?
>
>You should be able to set the overlay to be invisible to mouse events etc.
>quite easily.
>>
>> I ned to be compatible with 10.5 so method 3 is out of the question.
>>
>> Thanks anyway!
>>
>> Florian.
>>
>> On 25 Nov 2009, at 14:44, Thomas Goossens wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Florian,
>>>
>>> You can't do custom drawing this way (because the IKImageBrowserView
>>> renders into an openGL surface, so AppKit or CoreGraphics calls won't do
>>> anything).
>>> So to do what you want you can either:
>>> - make the view layer backed and add a sub-layer
>>> - add an overlay transparent window on top of the image browser view
>>> - add an overlay layer with setForegroundLayer: (that's the easiest
>>> solution but it is SnowLeopard only).
>>>
>>> -- Thomas
>>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 25, 2009, at 2:34 PM, Florian Soenens wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi list,
>>>>
>>>> i'm trying to override an IKImageBrowserView to do some custom drawing but
>>>> i'm stuck.
>>>> What i try to accomplish is that when the view contains zero items, some
>>>> custom drawing happens like drawing an NSAttributedString that says "Drop
>>>> items here..."
>>>> Problem is that my drawing code gets never called.
>>>>
>>>> Here's the drawRect method of my IKImageBrowserView:
>>>>
>>>> - (void)drawRect:(NSRect)rect
>>>> {
>>>> [super drawRect:rect];
>>>>
>>>> NSUInteger numItems = [[self dataSource]
>>>> numberOfItemsInImageBrowser:self];
>>>>
>>>> if(numItems <= 0)
>>>> {
>>>> NSLog(@"No items in me"); // This gets called, so i'm sure the
>>>> above code works
>>>>
>>>> NSRect bounds = [self bounds];
>>>> bounds.size.width = 200;
>>>> bounds.size.height = 200;
>>>> bounds.origin.x += 200;
>>>> bounds.origin.y += 200;
>>>>
>>>> //[NSGraphicsContext saveGraphicsState];
>>>>
>>>> [[NSColor yellowColor] set]; // Just for testing purposes
>>>> NSRectFill(bounds);
>>>>
>>>> //[NSGraphicsContext restoreGraphicsState];
>>>> }
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> Uncommenting the NSGrahicsContext doesn't help either.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone has any ideas or workarounds for this?
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>> Florian
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