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NSShadow and clipping

Hi,

I have a hard time with NSShadow. I have two problems related with clipping.

1) If I need to constraint drawing an image or a shading (gradient) inside a
non rectangular path, as far as I know, my sole solution is to use clipping
from the the path. Unfortunately, this same clipping prevent the drawing of
the shadow around the my drawing since the whole clipping is filled. I would
have thought that NSShadow will use the clipping at the moment of the -set.

2) It seems that NSShadow draw the shadow only for the thing effectively
drawn, which cause another problem. If the shape that has a shadow is
complete scrolled out except its shadow, it becomes impossible to draw the
shadow.

I've tried to draw all my element in a temporary NSImage. Unfortunately,
this seems a bad idea since NSImage keeps a bitmap: when zooming or printing
the result is still at 72 dpi.

Is there any other solutions?

Thanks,

Eric

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