NSView background image composed of 3 different files.

Question

Hi,

I'm trying to set a background image of an NSView. (Actually an NSScrollView.) At the moment I'm subclassing drawRect: and I'm using NSDrawThreePartImage to draw the image but there are a few things that are not correct whenever I start scrolling. Here's an image. Are there better ways to draw the images?

- (void)drawRect: (NSRect)dirtyRect
{
    dirtyRect.size.height -= 18; //Moving the image up a bit for future subclassing of NSScroller.
    NSDrawThreePartImage(dirtyRect, viewLeftCap, viewFill, viewRightCap, NO, NSCompositeSourceOver, 1, YES);
}

Answer 1

If you want to redraw the whole view, you should be using [self bounds], not the rect passed into your -drawRect: method.