Re: How to disable/gray an NSTextfield (used as static text)
Re: How to disable/gray an NSTextfield (used as static text)
- Subject: Re: How to disable/gray an NSTextfield (used as static text)
- From: Dave MacLachlan <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:30:35 -0700
The text field on the right was set to disabledControlTextColor
*within
IB* (via Developer color palette). The text field on the left is
set to
disabledControlTextColor *with setTextColor:*. Yet they don't
match. As
you say, if I use secondarySelectedControlColor, they match.
Why is that?
To resurrect a age-old thread that never really got resolved..
4642547 Static Text in Cocoa draws "disabled" incorrectly
So I did some research on this because I was running into problems
with it as well...basically here's what I found.
Take a look at this screen shot of IB:
http://homepage.mac.com/dmaclach/bugs/radar4642547.png
NSTextFields DO change color when they are disabled, however I think
somebody was trying to be clever and change the brightness and
changed it the wrong way. Black gets blacker when it should be
getting lighter. This means that the standard workaround of using
[NSColor secondarySelectedControlColor] is wrong...it just happens to
work-out that the secondarySelectedControlColor is the right
"lightness" that when it is darkened appropriately it looks about right.
I really think that "disabled" shouldn't lighten the color, but
instead should set the color equivalent to
"kThemeTextColorPopupLabelInactive" or [NSColor
disabledControlTextColor].
This probably explains the differences that you are/were seeing Sean.
Hopefully they'll figure out someway to fix this instead of having
everyone subclass and do it incorrectly.
Cheers,
Dave
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