On Jun 23, 2010, at 1:28 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Alexander Cohen <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> I have a view in an NSScrollView's document view that has a small child 
>> window attached to it, meaning the window follows that view wherever it 
>> goes. But when i scroll the scrollview, not much changes for that view. So 
>> i'm wondering if there is anyway to get changes to a views "global" frame. 
>> If i'm missing something obvious, please do tell.
> 
> Scroll views (actually, clip views) work by moving their bounds
> coordinate system. When AppKit draws the view hierarchy, it applies a
> transform to the current graphics context that is based on the bounds
> coordinate system of the view being drawn; this is how you can draw at
> (0,0) in your -drawRect: and have it appear at the right point in the
> superview. Likewise, as AppKit finishes drawing a view, it pops these
> transforms off the stack.
> 
> By the time your overlay window draws, it's in another window
> entirely, so it has an entirely different transform stack—notably one
> lacking the transform the clip view has applied prior to your document
> view being drawn.
> 
> Your child window or the content view thereof is going to need to
> listen for bounds-change notifications from the clip view and set its
> own bounds coordinate system to match.
> _______________________________________________

Depending on your needs, you may also want to consider subclassing 
NSViewController or NSWindowController to handle things.

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