I have some CALayers in a layer hosted view. Each of these layers has additional layers to hold (1) a close button, and (2) a resize handle. These additional 'control' layers are added as sublayers to the parent layer.
Currently, when I zoom the workspace in which these layers reside, everything scales -- including these control layers. However, I would like to prevent these control layers from scaling.
Is there a way to override the behaviour of having scale transforms being applied to all sublayers, without having to override the drawInContext: method for each control layer (presumably to invert any existing scale transform -- assuming this is possible) and without having to manually send each of these control layers a setNeedsDisplay: with every zoom?
I found this thread which discusses doing something similar but the discussion goes in the direction of CATiledLayers which is not what I'm looking for here.
http://lists.apple.com/archives/cocoa-dev/2008/Jul/msg00633.html
Also, this post asks a somewhat related question but the responses do not apply to my situation, since I cannot overlay the controls -- they must be part of the layer hierarchy.