Re: How make image nonvibrant in Yosemite NSVisualEffectView

2014-10-30 Thread David Duncan
> On Oct 30, 2014, at 2:09 PM, Bill Cheeseman wrote: > > >> On Oct 30, 2014, at 4:04 PM, David Duncan wrote: >> >> Then you just move your single vibrant background as necessary to be behind >> the right icon view. It sounds like you are putting the icon view inside the >> vibrant backgroun

Re: How make image nonvibrant in Yosemite NSVisualEffectView

2014-10-30 Thread Eric Schlegel
> On Oct 30, 2014, at 12:56 PM, Bill Cheeseman wrote: > > My images are application icons obtained using -[NSWorkspace iconForFile:]. > Like most application icons, they usually have irregularly shaped > nontransparent areas. I want to create a rectangular mask with a hole in it, > where the

Re: How make image nonvibrant in Yosemite NSVisualEffectView

2014-10-30 Thread Bill Cheeseman
> On Oct 30, 2014, at 4:04 PM, David Duncan wrote: > > Then you just move your single vibrant background as necessary to be behind > the right icon view. It sounds like you are putting the icon view inside the > vibrant background. According to the AppKit Release Note, at least as I understa

Re: How make image nonvibrant in Yosemite NSVisualEffectView

2014-10-30 Thread David Duncan
> On Oct 30, 2014, at 12:00 PM, Bill Cheeseman wrote: > > I am trying to make my application's window behave like the Application > Switcher behaves in Yosemite (open Application Switcher by pressing > Command-Tab). > > There is one behavior I can't figure out. The Application Switcher's wind

Re: How make image nonvibrant in Yosemite NSVisualEffectView

2014-10-30 Thread Bill Cheeseman
> On Oct 30, 2014, at 3:28 PM, Quincey Morris > wrote: > > Maybe this is too simplistic, but isn’t there a solution where the icons are > subviews of another view that has vibrancy turned off, not directly of the > window content view? > > Or, in the worst case, a two-window solution where t

Re: How make image nonvibrant in Yosemite NSVisualEffectView

2014-10-30 Thread Quincey Morris
On Oct 30, 2014, at 12:00 , Bill Cheeseman wrote: > > There is one behavior I can't figure out. The Application Switcher's window > background is vibrant, and so is the darker rectangle that marks the > application to be made active, but the icon images are not vibrant. > > In my application,

How make image nonvibrant in Yosemite NSVisualEffectView

2014-10-30 Thread Bill Cheeseman
I am trying to make my application's window behave like the Application Switcher behaves in Yosemite (open Application Switcher by pressing Command-Tab). There is one behavior I can't figure out. The Application Switcher's window background is vibrant, and so is the darker rectangle that marks