I have a UIView subclass in my iOS app and the content for that UIView is 3
CALayers, each with a bitmap image for their content, added as sublayers of the
UIView's layer. Each of the CALayers is the full size of the UIView's layer
(they have transparency to composite them together).
When the UIView is resized the setFrame: method is called and I have a custom
implementation of that which sets the bounds of the sublayers so they again
fill the UIView's layer, and draws a new bitmap for each of them of the right
size and sets it into their contents.
However, when I resize, there's a brief flash of the current content, before
it's been redrawn, stretched to fill the new sized window, before the new
content replaces it. Nothing I've tried has been able to stop that brief flash
and I can't figure out where it's coming from.
I've checked that, at the start of the setFrame: method the UIView's layer
hasn't already been resized, it hasn't. So before setting the frame bounds and
center I've tried removing the content from the sublayers, that didn't work,
still flash, I've tried removing the layers totally before sizing the UIView
and putting them back at the end after sizing and giving them new content, that
didn't work, so this resized drawing doesn't appear to be coming from the
UIView's layer.
So I looked at the individual 3 layers which have content on them. I can see
how, if the bounds change and the content doesn't, the layer will stretch the
bitmap to the window, so I've ensure that I call setContent:nil *before* I
resize the layer. Of course content is an animatable property as is bounds so
it was quite possible the layer is animating the change in bounds and content
and starts with a stretched 'old' content, so I turned off animations both by
using layer's setActions: method with NSNull for each of the actions contents,
orderIn, orderOut, bounds, hidden and sublayers AND I also put the whole thing
in a CATransaction into which I've done this to disable actions.
[ CATransaction setValue:(id)kCFBooleanTrue
forKey:kCATransactionDisableActions ];
and just for good measure I've done one transaction to remove the contents,
committed it, then a second transaction to resize the layer and add new
content. None of these things have worked, I still see stretched (or
compressed) content for a fraction of a second before the content I want is
redrawn. I've also turned off autoresizing of subviews all down the line and
set the mode to 'redraw', just incase the layers were being resized early,
still no good and lastly I've moved the code from setFrame: to layoutSubviews
and that makes no difference
I'm out of ideas. Perhaps there is something I just fail to understand in the
way the model and presentation layers work because certainly in the model no
CALayer is resized whilst it still has content set in it, I've printed the
bounds of the layer out before I resize it, so I cannot see why the old, now
gone, content briefly shows up stretched.
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