OK, I implemented Graham's solution and it works very well in my situation. The PDFView in question is not flush with any of the edges of a window, so I don't need to worry about that here.
Thanks, Graham. Thanks, all! Martin On 5, Feb, 2012, at 02:20 AM, Quincey Morris wrote: > On Feb 4, 2012, at 16:17 , Graham Cox wrote: > >> The way I've done this is to handle the focus ring in the view's -drawRect >> method. You need to focus on the superview so you can draw outside your >> frame, but that's not a problem - just do it after you've drawn the rest of >> your normal content. > > The one issue this doesn't solve is that of making room around the view to > draw the focus ring. If one or more edges of the view are flush with the edge > of the window, the exterior ring looks ugly. > > In the past, I've sometimes taken the approach of drawing the focus ring > *inside* the view. (Use the view bounds rect, inset by 1.0, to draw the focus > ring, and don't lock focus on the superview, of course.) It looks pretty good > -- it's slightly transparent so it doesn't obscure the content much. However, > with this approach, there's apparently no way to take advantage of the spiffy > new Lion methods for focus rings. It's also less than ideal during an > inertial scroll "bounce". > >> The only other thing I've found necessary is to track whether the focus ring >> needs an update or not by using >> -setKeyboardFocusRingNeedsDisplayInRect:[self bounds] which I call from >> -becomeFirstResponder and -resignFirstResponder. > > I think you also need to force an update when the app is deactivated. The > window is still the key window, but the focus ring shouldn't be drawn. > > _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
