Question

I’m trying to crate a simple Mac paint application. On iOS I used UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext to update a UIImageView’s image when touchesMoved. I’m now trying to active the same thing but on a Mac app, I want to do:

myNSImageView.image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext(); 

But that function does only exist on cocoa-touch and not within the cocoa framework, any tips on where/if I can find a similar function in Cocoa?

Thanks.

Update

Some additional code for completeness.

- (void)mouseDragged:(NSEvent *)event
{

    NSInteger width = canvasView.frame.size.width;
    NSInteger height = canvasView.frame.size.height;

    NSGraphicsContext * graphicsContext = [NSGraphicsContext currentContext];
    CGContextRef contextRef = (CGContextRef) [graphicsContext graphicsPort];

    CGContextRef imageContextRef =  CGBitmapContextCreate(0, width, height, 8, width*4,    [NSColorSpace genericRGBColorSpace].CGColorSpace, kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedFirst); 

    NSPoint currentPoint = [event locationInWindow];

    CGContextSetRGBStrokeColor(contextRef, 49.0/255.0, 147.0/255.0, 239.0/255.0, 1.0);
    CGContextSetLineWidth(contextRef, 1.0);

    CGContextBeginPath(contextRef);
    CGContextMoveToPoint(contextRef, lastPoint.x, lastPoint.y);
    CGContextAddLineToPoint(contextRef, currentPoint.x, currentPoint.y);
    CGContextDrawPath(contextRef,kCGPathStroke);

    CGImageRef imageRef = CGBitmapContextCreateImage(imageContextRef);
    NSImage* image = [[NSImage alloc] initWithCGImage:imageRef size:NSMakeSize(width, height)];
    canvasView.image = image;
    CFRelease(imageRef);
    CFRelease(imageContextRef);

    lastPoint = currentPoint;

}

The result I’m getting now that the painting works fine in the upper part of the view, but bot the rest. Like on this image (the red part should be the canvasView):

Answer 1

NSInteger width = 1024;
NSInteger height = 768;
CGContextRef contextRef =  CGBitmapContextCreate(0, width, height, 8, width*4, [NSColorSpace genericRGBColorSpace].CGColorSpace, kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedFirst); 

CGContextSetRGBStrokeColor(contextRef, 49.0/255.0, 147.0/255.0, 239.0/255.0, 1.0);
CGContextFillRect(contextRef, CGRectMake(0.0f, 0.0f, width, height));

CGImageRef imageRef = CGBitmapContextCreateImage(contextRef);
NSImage* image = [[NSImage alloc] initWithCGImage:imageRef size:NSMakeSize(width, height)];
CFRelease(imageRef);
CFRelease(contextRef);