On Oct 31, 2013, at 4:02 AM, Eric Wing <ewmail...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/30/13, Charles Srstka <cocoa...@charlessoft.com> wrote: >> In Apple's Sprite Kit documentation, it claims: >> >> "Because Sprite Kit content is rendered by a view object, you can combine >> this view with other views in the view hierarchy. For example, you can use >> standard button controls and place them above your Sprite Kit view. Or, you >> can add interactivity to sprites to implement your own buttons; the choice >> is up to you." >> >> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/GraphicsAnimation/Conceptual/SpriteKit_PG/GettingStarted/GettingStarted.html >> >> However, I have so far had no success getting NSButtons and other >> NSView-based views to appear on top of an SKView. I've tried making the view >> a subview of the SKView, making it an overlapping sibling view, building it >> programmatically, putting it in the XIB — in all cases, the NSView-based >> object is not drawn. >> >> Am I missing something here? Is there some flag somewhere that I need to set >> for this to work? Or is the documentation here incorrect? >> >> Thanks, >> Charles >> > > I haven't tried it myself, but stupid question, did you remember to > enable layer backed views? > > I've spent many years trying to get native controls to render on top > of (non-SpriteKit) OpenGL and there's always something that goes > wrong. In the past couple of years I shifted over to CAOpenGLLayer > instead of NSOpenGLView. That also had a list of problems, but in the > end (and after multiple Apple bug fixes), it was working much better > for me. But I guess I should assume Apple didn't provide a SKLayer > class.
That's it! I didn't have layers turned on. Brilliant. Now it's showing up perfectly. Thanks! Charles _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
