Add background to IKImageView

Question

I want to add a checkerboard background to an IKImageView for viewing transparent images. I am trying to set CALayer with checkboard image to IKImageView with message setOverlay:forType

CFURLRef imageURL = CFBundleCopyResourceURL(CFBundleGetMainBundle(),(CFStringRef)@"bgImage.png", NULL, NULL);
CGImageSourceRef imageSource = CGImageSourceCreateWithURL(imageURL,NULL);
CFRelease(imageURL);
CGImageRef image = CGImageSourceCreateImageAtIndex(imageSource, 0,NULL);
CFRelease(imageSource);
CALayer *bgLayer = [[CALayer alloc] init ];
[bgLayer setContents:image ];
[ imageView setOverlay:bgLayer forType:IKOverlayTypeBackground ];

but doesn't work. I get this message in console

could not add '<CALayer: 0x101d039a0>' linkedTo 'kIKRootLayerType'

Does anyone knows what is wrong or any workarround ?

Thanks

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 28 '11 at 17:39

The error message is because the view is not attached to top view.

Finally I added the checkerboard background to the NSScrollview container of the IKImageview, this way the background layer auto resizes

CALayer *layer=[[SquareBackgroundLayer alloc] init];
[[ scrollView contentView] setLayer:layer];
[ layer release ];

I hope this is helpful for anyone.

Add background to IKImageView

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