I am using an NSView to host several Core Animation CALayer objects. What I want to be able to do is grab a snapshot of the view's current state as a bitmap image.

This is relatively simple with a normal NSView using something like this:

void ClearBitmapImageRep(NSBitmapImageRep* bitmap) {
    unsigned char* bitmapData = [bitmap bitmapData];
    if (bitmapData != NULL)
        bzero(bitmapData, [bitmap bytesPerRow] * [bitmap pixelsHigh]);
}

@implementation NSView (Additions)
- (NSBitmapImageRep*)bitmapImageRepInRect:(NSRect)rect
{
    NSBitmapImageRep* imageRep = [self bitmapImageRepForCachingDisplayInRect:rect];
    ClearBitmapImageRep(imageRep);
    [self cacheDisplayInRect:rect toBitmapImageRep:imageRep];
    return imageRep;
}
@end

However, when I use this code, the Core Animation layers are not rendered.

I have investigated CARenderer, as it appears to do what I need, however I cannot get it to render my existing layer tree. I tried the following:

NSOpenGLPixelFormatAttribute att[] = 
{
    NSOpenGLPFAWindow,
    NSOpenGLPFADoubleBuffer,
    NSOpenGLPFAColorSize, 24,
    NSOpenGLPFAAlphaSize, 8,
    NSOpenGLPFADepthSize, 24,
    NSOpenGLPFANoRecovery,
    NSOpenGLPFAAccelerated,
    0
};

NSOpenGLPixelFormat *pixelFormat = [[NSOpenGLPixelFormat alloc] initWithAttributes:att];
NSOpenGLView* openGLView = [[NSOpenGLView alloc] initWithFrame:[self frame] pixelFormat:pixelFormat];
NSOpenGLContext* oglctx = [openGLView openGLContext];

CARenderer* renderer = [CARenderer rendererWithCGLContext:[oglctx CGLContextObj] options:nil];
renderer.layer = myContentLayer;
[renderer render];
NSBitmapImageRep* bitmap = [oglView bitmapImageRepInRect:[oglView bounds]];

However, when I do this I get an exception:

CAContextInvalidLayer -- layer <CALayer: 0x1092ea0> is already attached to a context

I'm guessing t

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