drawRect not being called on added subview

Question

I'm trying to programmatically create a window with custom contentView and one custom NSTextField control, but i'm having trouble getting this hierarchy of window and views to draw themselves.

I create a custom borderless window and override it's setContentView / contentView accessors. This seems to work fine and custom contentView's initWithFrame and drawRect methods get called causing contentView to draw itself correctly.

But as soon as i try programmatically adding custom NSTextField to contentView it doesn't get added or drawn. By saying custom i mean that i override it's designated initializer (initWithFrame:frame - only for custom font setting) and drawRect method which looks like this:

- (void)drawRect:(NSRect)rect {
    NSRect bounds = [self bounds];
    [super drawRect:bounds];
}

The custom contentView's initializer looks like this:

- (id)initWithFrame:(NSRect)frame {
    self = [super initWithFrame:frame];
    if (self != nil) {
      // i want to draw itself to the same 
      // size as contentView thus i'm using same frame
      CustomTextField *textField = [[CustomTextField alloc] initWithFrame:frame];
      [self addSubview:textField];
      [self setNeedsDisplay:YES];
    }
    return self;
}

I've been strugling with this for few hours so any pointers are much appreciated. More code is available on request .)

Answer 1

Thanks for your answers!

I found my own problem. The reason why drawRect wasn't being called is because custom textfield was drawn outside the frame of content view. I guess i forgot to mention crucial detail that i'm drawing window centered on the screen thus it's frame was with x/y offset.

To fill the window with it's content view I init contentView with same frame as window (meaning the same (x;y) offset from window's (0;0) point).

Now i'm just unable to write to custom text field, but that's another problem I think I'm able to handle.