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Re: NSTextField setTextColor: not working as expected
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Re: NSTextField setTextColor: not working as expected


  • Subject: Re: NSTextField setTextColor: not working as expected
  • From: "charlie" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:23:33 +0000


That's a great thought, but actually it's just a plain-old, IB-created NSTextField.


- Chuck


On December 31, 2007, Ricky Sharp wrote:


On Dec 31, 2007, at 7:55 AM, Shripada Hebbar wrote:


this doesn't work:

[myTextField setTextColor:[[NSColor redColor] colorWithAlphaComponent:0.5]];
(result is plain red, ignoring alpha)


Documentation of 'colorWithAlphaComponent' says:
"A subclass with explicit opacity components should override this method to return a color with the specified alpha."
Thus the above code wont return you the expected color.


Actually, colorWithAlphaComponent: will indeed return the expected color. I've use that API on many occasions and just created a test app with two NSTextField instances. They use alpha of 0.5 and 0.25 respectively. The text was rendered correctly even when the text was being edited (i.e. the field editor also did the right thing).

I ran my test on 10.5.1

I believe the problem may be within the cells/views hierarchy. If things are marked as being opaque, alpha can be ignored. Is a custom subclass of NSTextField being used?



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