On Thu, May 26, 2016, 13:06 Wolfgang Lux <wolfgang....@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > Does it make sense to also draw it?
>
> No. In the end, it is the window you are drawing to that determines the
> graphics context and without that there is nothing you can draw. Also,
> usually you don't draw a view yourself, but only when the window that
> contains the view asks you to do so. This is for optimized drawing, so that
> you can restrict drawing to just that part of a window that is actually
> visible. If you really need to draw a view that is not visible, create an
> offscreen window for that and attach the view to it.
>

Not sure why it would make no sense, you could* draw the view into a
CGContext. Or otherwise offscreen.


* Not on GNUstep at the moment.
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