root/chrome/browser/ui/cocoa/custom_frame_view.h

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// Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.

#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>

// CustomFrameView is a class whose methods we swizzle into NSGrayFrame
// on 10.7 and below, or NSThemeFrame on 10.8 and above, so that we can
// support custom frame drawing. This is used with a textured window so that
// AppKit does not draw a title bar.
// This class is never to be instantiated on its own.
// We explored a variety of ways to support custom frame drawing and custom
// window widgets.
// Our requirements were:
// a) that we could fall back on standard system drawing at any time for the
//    "default theme"
// b) We needed to be able to draw both a background pattern, and an overlay
//    graphic, and we need to be able to set the pattern phase of our background
//    window.
// c) We had to be able to support "transparent" themes, so that you could see
//    through to the underlying windows in places without the system theme
//    getting in the way.
//
// Since we want "A" we couldn't just do a transparent borderless window. At
// least I couldn't find the right combination of HITheme calls to make it draw
// nicely, and I don't trust that the HITheme calls are going to exist in future
// system versions.
// "C" precluded us from inserting a view between the system frame and the
// the content frame in Z order. To get the transparency we actually need to
// replace the drawing of the system frame.
// "B" precluded us from just setting a background color on the window.
//
// Originally we tried overriding the private API +frameViewForStyleMask: to
// add our own subclass of NSGrayView to our window. Turns out that if you
// subclass NSGrayView it does not draw correctly when you call NSGrayView's
// drawRect. It appears that NSGrayView's drawRect: method (and that of its
// superclasses) do lots of "isMemberOfClass/isKindOfClass" calls, and if your
// class is NOT an instance of NSGrayView (as opposed to a subclass of
// NSGrayView) then the system drawing will not work correctly.
//
// Given all of the above, we found swizzling drawRect in _load to be the
// easiest and safest method of achieving our goals. We do the best we can to
// check that everything is safe, and attempt to fallback gracefully if it is
// not.

@interface NSWindow (CustomFrameView)

// To define custom window drawing behaviour, override this method on an
// NSWindow subclass. Call the default method (on super) to draw the
// default frame.
// NOTE: Always call the default implementation (even if you just immediately
// draw over it), otherwise the top-left and top-right corners of the window
// won't be drawn correctly.
- (void)drawCustomFrameRect:(NSRect)rect forView:(NSView*)view;

@end

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