Re: Cocoa controls on top of an OpenGL view
Re: Cocoa controls on top of an OpenGL view
- Subject: Re: Cocoa controls on top of an OpenGL view
- From: Ian was here <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 11:39:27 -0700 (PDT)
The only way I know of in Cocoa is to create a
transparent window with your cocoa controls on it and
add it as a child window above your OpenGL window.
I've done something similar to this and it worked out
OK.
--- John Stiles <email@hidden> wrote:
> Is there a recommended way to float Cocoa controls
> on top of an
> NSOpenGLView?
>
> In Carbon, we were able to do this by creating one
> window which
> contained an AGL surface, and then a separate Carbon
> window. We
> "combined" the two windows with window groups and
> the visual effect worked.
>
> I'd be OK with this but I don't know if there is a
> Cocoa equivalent to
> window groups, and if there is a simpler way, I'd
> like to know more. I
> do know that, in general, Cocoa does not support
> Z-ordering for
> controls, so that seems like a potential stumbling
> block.
>
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