Re: Superimposing NSViews over an SKView
Re: Superimposing NSViews over an SKView
- Subject: Re: Superimposing NSViews over an SKView
- From: Charles Srstka <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 10:37:16 -0500
On Oct 31, 2013, at 4:02 AM, Eric Wing <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 10/30/13, Charles Srstka <email@hidden> wrote:
>> In Apple's Sprite Kit documentation, it claims:
>>
>> "Because Sprite Kit content is rendered by a view object, you can combine
>> this view with other views in the view hierarchy. For example, you can use
>> standard button controls and place them above your Sprite Kit view. Or, you
>> can add interactivity to sprites to implement your own buttons; the choice
>> is up to you."
>>
>> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/GraphicsAnimation/Conceptual/SpriteKit_PG/GettingStarted/GettingStarted.html
>>
>> However, I have so far had no success getting NSButtons and other
>> NSView-based views to appear on top of an SKView. I've tried making the view
>> a subview of the SKView, making it an overlapping sibling view, building it
>> programmatically, putting it in the XIB — in all cases, the NSView-based
>> object is not drawn.
>>
>> Am I missing something here? Is there some flag somewhere that I need to set
>> for this to work? Or is the documentation here incorrect?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Charles
>>
>
> I haven't tried it myself, but stupid question, did you remember to
> enable layer backed views?
>
> I've spent many years trying to get native controls to render on top
> of (non-SpriteKit) OpenGL and there's always something that goes
> wrong. In the past couple of years I shifted over to CAOpenGLLayer
> instead of NSOpenGLView. That also had a list of problems, but in the
> end (and after multiple Apple bug fixes), it was working much better
> for me. But I guess I should assume Apple didn't provide a SKLayer
> class.
That's it! I didn't have layers turned on. Brilliant. Now it's showing up perfectly. Thanks!
Charles
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