Hi, I need to make a snapshot of a CALayer, together with all its sublayers and effects, into a bitmap.
I've found I can use -[CALayer renderInContext:], but I find it too slow, particularly because some of the sublayers have shadows and the Shark shows that most of time is spent in calculating blur convolutions of the shadows. On the other hand, all those shadows are already rendered to the screen, so theoretically there is no need to render them again. Is there a way I could directly grab what I see in the layer into a bitmap? What I have already tried: -[NSBitmapImageRep initWithFocusedViewRect:] -- doesn't work, shows empty box instead of the layer-hosting view - [NSView cacheDisplayInRect:] -- does not work unless you put -[CALayer renderInContext:] into the layer-hosting view's -drawRect:, so see the problem above The content of layers is drawn using -[CALayer drawLayer:inContext:] Thanks, Oleg. _______________________________________________ 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
