Graham,

+[NSGraphicsContext graphicsContextWithBitmapImageRep:] is a cover method of a 
more general, +[NSGraphicsContext graphicsContextWithGraphicsPort:flipped:].

You can create a CGBitmapContextRef out of the bitmap rep & pass to the latter 
method.

Aki

On 2011/12/12, at 17:07, Graham Cox wrote:

> 
> On 13/12/2011, at 12:00 PM, Keary Suska wrote:
> 
>> IIRC, NSLayoutManager expects that the view it is drawing in is flipped
> 
> It expects the CONTEXT it is drawing into is flipped, and in order to do that 
> it asks the CONTEXT the value of -isFlipped.
> 
> If the context is associated with a view, the view is queried.
> 
> I don't have a view, I have a context. I create the context from a bitmap rep 
> (I'm rendering text, and other things, into an offscreen image). When you do 
> that, it assumes that the context/bitmap is not flipped, and -isFlipped 
> returns NO. There is no way I can see to return YES from isFlipped, or pass 
> setFlipped:YES to the context, or set the flippedness to YES when the context 
> is created.
> 
> That is the problem I have.
> 
>> (-isFlipped returns YES). If it isn't, it will draw text inverted. Soooo.. I 
>> think all you need is to implement isFlipped returning YES.
> 
> 
> I suppose I could do this by subclassing NSGraphicsContext, but that seems a 
> surprising requirement given the task I'm trying to perform. Surely correctly 
> rendering text into a bitmap rep is something that the design of the graphics 
> system has anticipated?
> 
> --Graham
> 
> 
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