Re: Disable text field as label

FROM : Stephane Sudre
DATE : Thu Apr 21 13:59:47 2005

On 21 avr. 05, at 12:35, Andy Usher wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know how to get NSTextField to 'gray out' when disabled,
> other than to explicitly set the color, when used as a text label (ie
> dragged on as 'Label Font Text' in IB).
>
> I've tried setting it as disabled in both IB and programatically but
> every time it comes up with 100% black text color?
>
> Obviously all's well when used for text input, but when I'm making
> labels there seems to be no way to gray out!
>
> Any ideas?


You could subclass NSTextField to draw the text in gray when the
control/cell is disabled.

Now, the HIG behavior for a label is to stay black AFAIK.