Hello all,
I am stuck to a problem related to core graphics. Actually i want to
display an image over a overlay nswindow. For creating an cgimageref i
have written the following code:
[snip]
You're going about this the hard way. What you need to do is:
1. Create your NSWindow.
2. Add an NSImageView to the new window (e.g. by doing -
setContentView:). You'll want to configure it as well (e.g. set the
frame style, image alignment and image scaling properties).
3. Use NSImage to load the file (no need to use CGImage; that's just
complicating matters). You should be able to do [NSImage
imageNamed:@"originalColor.png"] to do this. (Compare with the code I
chopped out.)
4. Send your NSImageView a -setImage: message to change its image.
Also, I don't think you need to subclass the window. Generally when
you're writing Cocoa programs, you only subclass when you absolutely
have to; this is quite a contrast to many other OO frameworks
(particularly the Windows-based ones) where you tend to end up
subclassing things all the time.
Anyway, most of the code you put into your NSWindow subclass could go
into a method that creates and sets up the window and the image view.
The other thing that you perhaps didn't understand is that in Cocoa,
you do your drawing in an NSView subclass's -drawRect:. Normally,
anyway. So if you wanted to do the actual drawing yourself, you'd
need to write a view that draws an image in its -drawRect:. Since
this is a very common requirement, unsurprisingly there is already
such a view (NSImageView), so there's no need to bother in this
case... you can just use the ready-built one.
