Hi Kyle,

On May 20, 2010, at 12:12 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Kyle Sluder <kyle.slu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have uploaded a sample project to
>> http://www.lanechng.com/ScrolledLayerHostingView.zip. Resize the
>> window to see the problem in action; then click one of the scroll
>> arrows to see it fix itself.
> 
> Well, I've filed rdar://problem/8009542 with this demo project
> attached. I've also been informed that IKImageBrowserView isn't
> flipped, perhaps because of this very same issue. It's also the only
> class besides NSView to implement _updateLayerGeometryFromView.
> Needless to say, I'm more than a little suspicious that scroll views
> are just plain broken.
> 
> --Kyle Sluder

CALayers don't support the same notion of "flippedness" that NSView's geometry 
model uses.  (CALayer's "geometryFlipped" property is recursive in its effect, 
so isn't semantically identical.)

Therefore, whenever AppKit resizes the backing layer of a flipped NSView, we 
have to compute and assign new "position" values for its sublayers, to keep 
them in the same place relative to the top left.  (Don't count on this not 
changing in a future release, but for debugging purposes you can look for 
-_updateSublayerPositionsForFlippedSuperview, which gets invoked from 
-setFrameSize:)

We do this for sublayers that we created and therefore consider ourselves to 
"own", but in your test app you're instantiating and assigning a layer of your 
own to the documentView.  Therefore, when we resize the ClipView's backing 
layer (and the ClipView is flipped, because it always matches the flippedness 
of the ScrollView's documentView), we don't touch the position of your 
documentView's layer.  (If you modify your example to omit the custom layer 
creation and -setLayer:, and instead override -drawRect: to draw your content 
into the view's AppKit-provided backing layer, you'll see the problem goes 
away.)

Arguably it would actually be OK for us to modify the layer's position in this 
case (and clearly our "hands off" policy isn't quite consistent about this, 
since, as you noted, scrolling will "fix" the incorrect document layer 
position).

Meanwhile, the simplest solution, if you require a custom backing layer, is to 
override NSView's -makeBackingLayer method (added in 10.6) to instantiate and 
return your (autoreleased) layer.  When layer instantiation goes through this 
path, AppKit considers the layer AppKit-owned, so you won't run into the 
positioning problem.

By the way: I don't know whether CAGradientLayer disregards -setNeedsDisplay 
(since the layer renders its content programmatically), possibly making this 
irrelevant in practice, but in cases like this, where you provide a layer of 
your own that already has content, and you don't want AppKit to ever invoke the 
view's -drawRect: to draw view content into the layer, it's a good idea to 
-setLayerContentsRedrawPolicy:NSViewLayerContentsRedrawNever on the view.

Troy Stephens
AppKit

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