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Re: Drawing issue with translucent borderless NSWindow, initial content half stays
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Re: Drawing issue with translucent borderless NSWindow, initial content half stays


  • Subject: Re: Drawing issue with translucent borderless NSWindow, initial content half stays
  • From: Sean McBride <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2016 11:37:10 -0400
  • Organization: Rogue Research Inc.

On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 21:03:20 -0500, Ken Thomases said:

>On Aug 30, 2016, at 10:10 AM, Sean McBride <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> I have a drawing bug in my app, and reduced it to a toy app.
>Basically, I create an NSBorderlessWindowMask type window who's content
>view draws a translucent rounded rect.  Its only subview is an
>NSTextField that draws a number in a big font.  When I display the
>window, all is well.  But when I change the textfield text, or even
>simply remove the textfield, its old string half remains in a ghostly
>outline.  This works in 10.9 and 10.10, but is buggy in 10.11 and
>10.12.  I figure it's an OS bug, but maybe the description rings any
>bells for anyone?
>
>Does the window have a shadow?  Are you invalidating the shadow whenever
>the content gets redrawn (since the shadow of a partially-transparent
>window depend on exactly what was drawn non-transparently)?

Ken,

That was exactly it, thanks!  A call to invalidateShadow did it!

Cheers,

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Sean McBride, B. Eng                 email@hidden
Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada



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