Re: Overlapping Views

FROM : Scott Anguish
DATE : Sat Nov 24 08:40:32 2007

On Nov 23, 2007, at 12:16 PM, Alastair Houghton wrote:

>> This will be my very first app written in Cocoa/Obj-C, and I'm very 
>> used to having compositing views in Carbon. I won't be overlapping 
>> views like this though if it isn't really supported, since I don't 
>> want my app to possibly have erratic drawing/refresh behavior.

>
> As I say, child views are pretty much always supported, even though 
> IB might not let you create them in some cases.


To put a small bit of additional info on this...

The views that don't support children are typically the ones that rely 
on hardware acceleration.. QCComposer, OpenGL, QT Movies.. I think 
that hits the big ones.  WebKit may not support it either, but for 
different reasons.