I have a UIView in which I draw things in the drawRect method. I would like to overlay a CALayer over the UIView CALayer (self.layer) that would draw a subset of the things I draw in the drawRect. Basically, I draw a lot of circles in drawRect, and I would like to highlight some them on the overlay. I get the coordinates of the circles from a model object that is a property of the UIView.
My first attempt was to add a sublayer s
to the UIView layer, set its delegate to the UIView and call its setNeedsDisplay
method when needed, but drawLayer:InContext
is called by both layers (s
and self.layer). This doesn't work:
-(void)drawLayer:(CALayer *)layer inContext:(CGContextRef)ctx {
if (layer == s ) {
// draw stuffs for s
}
else if (layer==self.layer) {
// do nothing
}
}
results in a black UIView. I would like to draw s
from a place where I have access to my data model, and other variables useful for the drawing (width of lines..). I have kinda solved the problem by moving the drawing of s
to a separate object, but this forces me to also set a pointer of the model in this object, and also copy other parameters.
So my question is: in a UIView drawing its content using drawRect, how to add a sublayer which delegate is the same UIView ?