On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've googled around and poked at the documentation in Xcode, but I can't > seem to find any references to this. I'm trying to do something like > setBackgroundColor, but instead of picking a color, I want to pick an image. > > The end goal is to program an emulator for a small medical device like an > insulin pump; so the background of the window would be an image of the > device, and then I'd put some buttons and fields and such on top.
Create a borderless NSImageView or a basic NSView subclass with appropriate code in drawRect: and make it fill the window. Then either send it to the back of all your other views (if you're requiring 10.5+) or make all of your other views subviews of this view (if you need 10.4 compatibility or otherwise run into trouble with the other approach) and there you go. Brandon's idea of using +colorWithPatternImage: is a good one too. The two approaches have different upsides and downsides, this is just an alternative. Mike _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
