How to work around poor text rendering in text backed by a CALayer

Question

I have some variable text in an NSTextField that renders on a CALayer background view. As a CALayer does not support sub-pixel aliasing fo

Answer 1

Here is how the Original poster did not want to do it, but it was OK for me to have an opaque background...

when you make the layer:

    layer.opaque = YES;

Then in

  - (void)drawLayer:(CALayer *)layer inContext:(CGContextRef)context

     [NSGraphicsContext saveGraphicsState];
      NSGraphicsContext *nscg = [NSGraphicsContext graphicsContextWithGraphicsPort:context flipped:NO];
      [NSGraphicsContext setCurrentContext:nscg];

      NSRect ourframe = self.frame;
      // white background enables antialiasing
      [[NSColor whiteColor] setFill];
      NSRect ourNSFrame = ourframe;
      ourNSFrame.origin = NSZeroPoint;
      NSRectFill(ourNSFrame);

     [sometext drawInRect:ourNSFrame withAttributes:someattrs];

     [NSGraphicsContext restoreGraphicsState];