Daij-Djan/DDBackgroundView

A View (for ios and osx) that can draw all that you ever want in your background: color, gradient, patttern image, just an image, a border, rounded corners... all in one view

DDBackgroundView

A View (for ios and osx) that can draw all that you ever want in your background: color, gradient, patttern image, just an image, a border, rounded corners... all in one view

for ios this is convenient -- not that big a deal because stock UIViews could do it 'easily', but very convenient

DDBackgroundView *bg = [[DDBackgroundView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.bounds];
bg.alpha = 0.9;
bg.backgroundCornerRadius = 100;
bg.backgroundColor = [UIColor blueColor];
bg.backgroundPattern = [UIImage imageNamed:@"pattern"];

CTGradient *g = [CTGradient gradientWithBeginningColor:[UIColor redColor]
                                            endingColor:[UIColor clearColor]];        
[bg setBackgroundGradient:g withAngle:DDBackgroundViewGradientRadialAngle];

[bg setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"duck"]
          withAlpha:0.7
         withScaleMode:DDBackgroundViewImageScaleProportionallyDown];
[bg setBorderColor:[UIColor yellowColor] withWidth:1];

for osx, this is also very convenient -- but it's a bigger deal ;) as stuff is a tad harder to do than on ios.

DDBackgroundView *bg = [[DDBackgroundView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.bounds];
bg.alphaValue = 0.99;
bg.backgroundCornerRadius = 100;
bg.backgroundColor = [NSColor blueColor];
bg.backgroundPattern = [NSImage imageNamed:@"pattern"];
bg.backgroundPatternAlpha = 0.7;

NSGradient *g = [[NSGradient alloc] initWithStartingColor:[[NSColor redColor] colorWithAlpha:0.9] endingColor:[NSColor clearColor]];     
[bg setBackgroundGradient:g withAngle:DDBackgroundViewGradientRadialAngle];

[bg setBackgroundImage:[NSImage imageNamed:@"duck"]
          withAlpha:0.7
         withScaleMode:DDBackgroundViewImageScaleProportionallUpyDown];
[bg setBorderColor:[NSColor yellowColor] withWidth:3];