How to disable user interaction in a custom View

Question

I have a custom View NSView and I want to disable userinteraction, but I'm not sure how to do this.

My idea was:

[myView setEnabled:NO];

but it's wrong and doesn't work. How can I make it so that, it's just visible for the user, and nothing else?

Answer 1

NSView doesn't have either setEnabled: or setIgnoresMouseEvents:

Implement the hitTest: method to return nil.

Answer 2

From here:

//
//  NSView-DisableSubsAdditions.m
//  Can Combine Icons
//
//  Created by David Remahl on Tue Dec 25 2001.
//  Copyright (c) 2001 Infinity-to-the-Power-of-Infinity. All rights reserved.
//

#import "NSView-DisableSubsAdditions.h"

@implementation NSView(DisableSubsAdditions)

- (void)disableSubViews
{
    [self setSubViewsEnabled:NO];
}

- (void)enableSubViews
{
    [self setSubViewsEnabled:YES];
}

- (void)setSubViewsEnabled:(BOOL)enabled
{
    NSView* currentView = NULL;
    NSEnumerator* viewEnumerator = [[self subviews] objectEnumerator];

    while( currentView = [viewEnumerator nextObject] )
    {
        if( [currentView respondsToSelector:@selector(setEnabled:)] )
        {
            [(NSControl*)currentView setEnabled:enabled];
        }
        [currentView setSubViewsEnabled:enabled];

        [currentView display];
    }
}

@end

Answer 3

subclass the NSView and add following method

-(void)mouseDown:(NSEvent *)theEvent
{

}

Answer 4

Here is an example in Swift 4. Place your views into this custom view.

class UserInterectionDisabledView: NSView {
    override func hitTest(_ point: NSPoint) -> NSView? {
        return nil
    }
}