Subclassing an NSDrawer's contentView to implement a completely custom drawer

Question

I want to implement my own custom drawer completely by subclassing NSView and doing all my view drawing in that. I\'ve created a custom NSView class that does hardly anythin

Answer 1

I made a custom drawer by subclassing NSWindow rather than NSDrawer. It was a lot of work. There is a private object, NSThemeFrame, that sits between a NSWindow and its contentView. To avoid using private API, you have to make a transparent window and let its contentView act like a NSThemeFrame. Matt Gallagher shows how: http://cocoawithlove.com/2008/12/drawing-custom-window-on-mac-os-x.html