mouseMoved not called

Question

I have a subclassed NSView which is part of a .xib-file of a subclassed NSDocument, which gets alive by the default behaviour of NSDocumentController's openDocument: method. In this subclassed NSView I have implemented the methods awakeFromNib, in which the view's NSWindow setAcceptsMouseMovedEvents:YES method is called, and acceptsFirstMouse:, which returns YES. But my mouseMoved: method implementation of my subclassed NSView doesn't get called when I move the mouse over it. What might be the problem?

Answer 1

Be sure to request the mouseMoved event is sent:

NSTrackingAreaOptions options = (NSTrackingActiveAlways | NSTrackingInVisibleRect |  
                         NSTrackingMouseEnteredAndExited | NSTrackingMouseMoved);

NSTrackingArea *area = [[NSTrackingArea alloc] initWithRect:[self bounds]
                                                    options:options
                                                      owner:self
                                                   userInfo:nil];