[DayLateDon]

Hello ...

How do I clear the contents of an NSImage, leaving a blank and transparent canvas for redrawing?

Using NSBezierPath's fillRect: with clearColor (or any color with a zeroed alpha) just coats the image with transparent paint, effectively doing nothing. NSColor's swatchInRect draws the half-white-half-black square.

I _can_ copy in a transparent .tiff or something of that sort, but shouldn't there be a straighforward way to "paint" nothingness in? (Right now I'm interested in knocking out an entire image; but what if I want to "remove" a particular shape within an image by making its pixels transparent?) I can't seem to find an appropriate method.


Thanks ...

DayLateDon

[Mac Boy]

Ran across this today in NSGraphics.h:

APPKIT_EXTERN void NSEraseRect(NSRect aRect);

Have you tried this function?

- Ross

[DayLateDon]

Hello ...

NSEraseRect() just fills a rectangle with white; no transparency.

However, in checking that out, I ran across NSRectFillUsingOperation(NSRect aRect, NSCompositingOperation op). It's a "description forthcoming" function, but using NSCompositeClear for the operation seems to work just fine.


Thanks for the nudge ...

DayLateDon

[lindberg]

Right, the default compositing operation is usually NSCompositeSourceOver, (layering over top) whereas you want to use NSCompositeCopy (replace the pixels with the specified color) or maybe NSCompositeClear as you found.