On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Bill Cheeseman <b...@cheeseman.name> wrote: > Making the window invisible isn't relevant -- visual transparency and > clickthrough are two different qualities. To make a window transparent to > mouse events, you have to call -[NSWindow setIgnoresMouseEvents:YES]. Note > that the entire window will be clickthrough, not just transparent areas. > Clickthrough works even on windows that are not invisible. It's normally > used to make overlay windows.
Ok. I think a little detail of my requirements got lost in this thread somewhere. I'm sorry I'm not able to ask this question clearly enough. Thanks for keeping at this. So the little detail is this: I don't want to make my whole window transparent to mouse events. There are bits of my window on which I want to detect clicks. Those are the bits that I've drawn on. I want the bits I haven't drawn on, the visually transparent bits, to ignore clicks. When I use [NSView drawRect:] this works as expected - any pixel that is visually transparent is also transparent to clicks. However when I use a layer (either hosted or backed) the whole area intercepts clicks, whether visually transparent or not. I'm starting to think there's no way around this so I might just go back to [NSView drawRect:] even though it makes the animation slower. Hope that was somewhat clearer. Thanks for the help, Rowan _______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
