Graying out an NSWindow's content
I have an NSWindow with 2 NSViews (an NSSplitView and a custom NSView ). Accessing the data to populate these views can take some time. During this period, I'd like to gray out the content of these views. My first approach was to have a black third NSView that covered the other 2 and achieve the graying out effect by changing its alpha value. However I've since learned having a hierarchy with sibling views is undefined. What is the best approach here? Cache the NSBitmapImageRep of the 2 views, then replace them with the 3rd view, using the cached image(s) as background Set the alpha value for