Re: Overlapping Views

FROM : Scott Anguish
DATE : Fri Nov 23 09:06:02 2007

On Nov 22, 2007, at 11:02 PM, Ricky Sharp wrote:

>
> On Nov 22, 2007, at 9:49 PM, David Alger wrote:
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>> Im been working in Carbon for a number of years & am currently 
>> investigating the possibility of writting some apps in Cocoa.
>>
>> In IB whenever I have overlapping views I get warnings about 
>> illegal geometry & views overlapping other views. Does this mean 
>> that Cocoa doesn't really support overlapping views? If so, do 
>> views generally composite properly when overlapping?

>
> This is a FAQ.  Short answer is no.  For the long answer, read up 
> documentation and search the archives.


Well, actually now the short answer is "it depends on the target system"

it should work fine on 10.5. I that restriction was lifted for 
Leopard. Have a look at the CocoaSlides example for evidence of this.

Before 10.5 it wasn't supported.