I have a custom render CGImage, being put in an NSImage, put in an NSImageView, which is a subview of a custom NSView subclass returned for the column's view for a view-based NSTableView. When I use the visual debug inspector (not the view debugger), I get the image I expect when I preview the cgimage, the ns image, the nsimageview, but when I preview the cell I get a "ghosted" image. The dark blacks appear as medium grays, the saturated colors are pastels. I have checked the alphas and looked for secret over-lapping subviews, double checked my columns are not zero-width, and ensured my layout constraints made my image views the full size of my cell. What am I missing that could be causing the image to become faded out like that?
NSImageView appears ghostly inside view-based NSTableView.
Is it possible that the image view is being marked (or treated as) not-enabled when it’s in the cell view hierarchy? In that case, the image might be dimmed automatically to indicate the disabled state.