On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 8:52 PM, Ivan Vučica <i...@vucica.net> wrote:

> 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.
>
To clarify: I'm not saying it's possible, I'm saying it could make sense.
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