Hi, I had to design my whole view system to work around the problems with overlapping sibling views not being guaranteed to be drawn in a specific order, but today I came across some posts that suggested that this was no longer the case.
In the current 10.8 documentation it still says: "Note: For performance reasons, Cocoa does not enforce clipping among sibling views or guarantee correct invalidation and drawing behavior when sibling views overlap. If you want a view to be drawn in front of another view, you should make the front view a subview (or descendant) of the rear view." But in this thread from 2009, two Apple engineers (Corbin Dunn and David Duncan) said that the documentation is out of date, and that it should work as of 10.5: http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/cocoa/228191-nsview-behaves-different-on-10-4-vs-10-5.html There are conflicting views expressed in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/466297/is-there-a-proper-way-to-handle-overlapping-nsview-siblings My scenario is a whole lot of sibling, potentially translucent, overlapping, layer backed views. I'm fairly sure I tested this and found it to fail in mid 2010, so this would make it 10.6. It also appears that the CocoaSlides example app uses sibling views for the slides, and that appears to show the slides in the same order every time. So, is the problem actually fixed? And if so, what version of the operating system introduced the fix? Regards Gideon _______________________________________________ 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
