You might be able to accomplish this by somehow forcing the cell's
background style to always be "light." Maybe a call to
setBackgroundStyle: in willDisplayCell:... would do it.
I have some NSTableViews where I want the color of the text to
always be the same no matter what row is selected. I've found that,
since Leopard was released, that NSTableView will always draw the
text in a text field row cell as white instead of black when the
row is selected. How do I disable this? I want the text to always
be the same color no matter what, and I have my reasons for wanting
this.
I already tried making a custom data formatter that returns an
NSAttributedString with the text, the desired font, and [NSColor
blackColor] as the foreground color. It didn't work...