Using CALayer Delegate

Question

I have a UIView whose layers will have sublayers. I\'d like to assign delegates for each of those sublayers, so the delegate method can tell the layer what to draw. My que

Answer 1

The lightest-wight solution would be to create a small helper class in the the file as the UIView that's using the CALayer:

In MyView.h

@interface MyLayerDelegate : NSObject
. . .
@end

In MyView.m

@implementation MyLayerDelegate
- (void)drawLayer:(CALayer*)layer inContext:(CGContextRef)ctx
{
. . .
}
@end

Just place those at the top of your file, immediately below the #import directives. That way it feels more like using a "private class" to handle the drawing (although it isn't -- the delegate class can be instantiated by any code that imports the header).