Question

Ok so I have a problem. I have a method that is called imageFromText, it requires one parameter, the string itself, and it returns a NSImage. I also have another one which is called: imageFromView, this one basically have to “take a screenshot” of the view and return a NSImage, it also has only one parameter, the view itself. So it looks like this:

-(NSImage*)imageFromText: (NSString*)text {


}

-(NSImage*)imageFromView: (NSView*)view {


}

There’s only one problem, I have no idea how to do this. Well so, I spent my afternoon searching around and I didn’t find nothing. I’ve tried, to the second one, a method dataWithPDFInsideRect, but obviously, this method was not made to this propose. Please help me out!.
PLEASE NOT: I’M NOT ASKING FOR THE CODE READY. LIKE THE OLD DICTATION (IN MY COUNTY): DON’T GIVE THEM THE FISH, THEACH THEM HOW TO FISH. (TRANSLATED).

Answer 1

An alternative way is to lock focus on the view, then create a bitmap image rep with the contents of the view’s bounds. You can then create a blank image whose size is the size of the bounds, and add the image rep to it.

The third way is dataWithPDFInsideRect:. Yes, the one you tried and couldn’t get to work (I wish you’d explained what problem you had with it instead of just dismissing it!). Pass the view’s bounds, then pass the data to NSImage’s initWithData:.