Saving an NSView to a png file?

Question

I am making a simple program that creates game cards for a game I play. I have sent it out to some friends of mine for testing, but they really want it to save images, not j

Answer 1

// Get the data into a bitmap.
[viewBarChart lockFocus];
NSBitmapImageRep *rep = [[NSBitmapImageRep alloc] initWithFocusedViewRect:[viewBarChart bounds]];
[viewBarChart unlockFocus];
NSData *exportedData = [rep representationUsingType:NSJPEGFileType properties:nil];

NSSavePanel *savepanel = [NSSavePanel savePanel];
savepanel.title = @"Save chart";

[savepanel setAllowedFileTypes:[NSArray arrayWithObject:@"jpg"]];

[savepanel beginSheetModalForWindow:self.view.window completionHandler:^(NSInteger result)
 {
     if (NSFileHandlingPanelOKButton == result)
     {
         NSURL* fileURL = [savepanel URL];

         if ([fileURL.pathExtension isEqualToString:@""])
             fileURL = [fileURL URLByAppendingPathExtension:@"jpg"];

         [exportedData writeToURL:fileURL atomically:YES];
     }

     [rep release];
 }];