cocoa - draw image in NSView

Question

I'm having difficulties understanding why the below code doesn't work, what I want to achieve is an image being displayed in the top left corner of a NSView, but nothing is showing...

NSImage *map0 = [NSImage imageNamed:@"map0.png"];
NSRect rect = NSMakeRect(0, 0, 400, 400);
[map0 drawInRect:rect fromRect:NSZeroRect operation:NSCompositeSourceAtop fraction:1.0f];
[map drawRect:rect];

EDIT:

map is the NSView into which I would like to draw the image into

Answer 1

You never call drawRect: directly. This routine has various pre-conditions that are provided by Cocoa, such as the creation of a CGContextRef . You implement drawRect: . Cocoa calls it.

Your drawInRect:fromRect:operation:fraction: call should be put into the drawRect: of map , which should be a subclass of NSView . This specific problem is usually better solved with an NSImageView rather than a custom NSView , but if the drawing is more complex, then a custom NSView is appropriate.