On Oct 30, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: > > On Oct 30, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Alexander Reichstadt wrote: > >> given a custom NSView using drawRect to draw, say, a blue rectangle, >> controls inside that view are always in front of the blue rectangle. Is >> there a way to draw above controls with drawRect? Also putting a view with >> controls inside another view that draw in drawRect doesn't change that. Like >> textfields, they are always above drawn content. How does one draw above >> controls? > > Subviews are always drawn after their superview, so they are visually in > front of it. You can’t change that. > What you can try is adding a subview, positioning it over the control, and > putting it in front (I think that means later in the subviews array.) > Historically AppKit hasn’t handled overlapping sibling views, but I think > that nowadays if you make the parent view layer-backed it will work.
That's actually slightly reversed. AppKit has supported overlapping sibling views since 10.5. Layers complicate the story a bit, because a non-layer backed view can never draw over top of a layer. -Ken Cocoa Frameworks > (But layer-backing views brings its own visual issues, so this may not work > out for you.) > > Another approach is to subclass the control (or its cell class) and customize > its drawing. > > —Jens > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/kenferry%40gmail.com > > This email sent to kenfe...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
