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Re: NSRulerView and drawBackgroundInRect




On Jan 31, 2008, at 12:17 PM, glenn andreas wrote:

On Jan 31, 2008, at 10:49 AM, Ross Carter wrote:

It has been stated on this list (http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/message/cocoa/2007/5/2/182751 ) that "NSRulerView has the following method: - (void)drawBackgroundInRect:(NSRect)rect;"

I haven't found a method of that name in any documentation, including NSRulerView.h. Is this a private method?

Yes

Is it safe to rely on it?

In that it's never safe to rely on undocumented private methods, no. Not only can they go away or do something else, people using them have caused Apple engineers to have to make special workarounds to try to keep things from breaking in future versions (there is some special behavior with table views, for example, that is based on what SDK you link against - pretty much my definition of an ugly workaround).

Thanks, Glenn. I've filed a bug (5717504) asking that drawBackgroundInRect: be declared public. In the meantime, I guess there's no alternative but to use it anyway. NSRulerView uses the window background color as its background, and it looks terrible if the window is textured.
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