Re: NSTextField highlight
Re: NSTextField highlight
- Subject: Re: NSTextField highlight
- From: edward taffel <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 12:08:48 -0500
in case anyone is following:
from within a method defined on my subclass of NSTextField i sent:
[[self cell] setBackgroundStyle:interface.isDark() ? NSBackgroundStyleDark : NSBackgroundStyleLight];
no apparent affect—text color, background color, or highlight.
thanks again, ken, for mentioning it.
> On Mar 2, 2015, at 5:54 PM, edward taffel <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> On Mar 2, 2015, at 5:34 PM, Ken Thomases <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> On Mar 2, 2015, at 3:51 PM, edward taffel <email@hidden> wrote:
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>>> has anyone had success in changing NSTextField’s default highlight? e.g., given bright text on a dark background, the default highlight is not serviceable. i had hoped subclassing NSTextFieldCell & overriding -(id)_highlightColorForCell:(NSCell*)cell would work, as it does in instances of NSTextFieldCell in NSTableView. googling has not returned any simple direction—perhaps i’ve missed something.
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>> Have you set the cell's backgroundStyle to NSBackgroundStyleDark?
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>> Regards,
>> Ken
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> i haven’t fiddled w/ NSBackgroundStyleDark yet: i’ll give it a try & see what happens; but, given what i read in the doc, & as i’m dealing w/ a shade range—not just black or white, i may still need to look for a method to affect the highlight.
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> many thanks,
> edward
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