Re: Overlapping Views

FROM : Ricky Sharp
DATE : Fri Nov 23 14:27:31 2007

On Nov 23, 2007, at 2:06 AM, Scott Anguish wrote:

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

>>
>> On Nov 22, 2007, at 9:49 PM, David Alger wrote:
>>

>>> 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.


I had thought that only views put into Core Animation layers could be 
overlapped.  Thus, I didn't extend this CA capability to views in 
general.  Very nice if any view can now be overlapped whether using CA 
or not.

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