Re: Auxiliary Data in custom view?

FROM : Nick Zitzmann
DATE : Fri Nov 23 01:22:13 2007

On Nov 22, 2007, at 1:57 PM, Rick Mann wrote:

> In my Carbon app, my custom view had "Auxiliary Data" that I could 
> set in IB, and then get at in the code. I used this to name a 
> background image to display. My view would then load that image and 
> display it.
>
> Is there something similar in Cocoa?


Not without using an IB palette.

> Alternatively, what's the way to display a background image in my 
> Cocoa custom view?



Get the image as an NSImage or CIImage and use their composition 
methods.

Nick Zitzmann
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