Question

I am creating an app where I need to have a transparent NSView with a transparent PNG image inside. The problem is, the NSView I’m drawing has a gray background on it. I have it subclassed (as TransparentRectangleView) but don’t know what to put in drawRect to make it transparent.

I have already overridden the isOpaque method to return NO but it doesn’t seem to help…

Alternatively, is there already a subclassed NSView that is similar to the iPhone’s UIImageView (as long as I can add subviews inside, I need to add some text inside).

Answer 1

To make a view transparent, simply fill it with [NSColor clearColor].

- (void)drawRect:(NSRect)rect {
    [[NSColor clearColor] set];
    NSRectFill(rect);
}

The default implementation of isOpaque returns NO, so if you are subclassing NSView and not some other view you don’t need to worry about overriding it.