Drawing a drop-shadow around a view

2008-07-24 Thread Graham Cox
I have a view embedded in a NSScrollView. When the view is small there's a large expanse of grey visible. I'd like to draw a drop- shadow around the view in this situation to help it stand out slightly from the background. What's a good approach to do this? tia, cheers, Graham

Re: Drawing a drop-shadow around a view

2008-07-25 Thread Ian Jackson
Hi Graham, if I understand your question, then I wanted to do something like this a while back. I got something off the internet, though I can't remember where. Here's the source that I incorporated into my code. It's been ages since I added it in, so I can't remember whether this takes

Re: Drawing a drop-shadow around a view

2008-07-25 Thread Jonathan Dann
How odd I came across this yesterday on my travels! The site for this source is http://www.bergdesign.com/missing_cocoa_docs/nsclipview.html Jonathan www.espresso-served-here.com On 25 Jul 2008, at 11:13, Ian Jackson wrote: Hi Graham, if I understand your question, then I wanted to do som

Re: Drawing a drop-shadow around a view

2008-07-25 Thread Ian Jackson
Ah yes, Perhaps I should add that address in the comments at the top of the class for future reference. I see that the shadow stuff isn't in that original code, but it all seems to go hand in hand. The complete lack of commenting in the drawRect method strongly implies that I am responsib

Re: Drawing a drop-shadow around a view

2008-07-25 Thread Graham Cox
Thanks Ian, just what I was looking for. Graham On 26 Jul 2008, at 8:18 am, Ian Jackson wrote: Anyway, hopefully with that link, along with the extra bit at the bottom about how to incorporate the code, this should all help draw shadows. ___