Re: Disabling NSTableView's behavior of turning black text white

FROM : John Stiles
DATE : Mon Jan 14 23:56:21 2008

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.

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/
ApplicationKit/Classes/NSCell_Class/Reference/NSCell.html#//apple_ref/
occ/instm/NSCell/setBackgroundStyle:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/
ApplicationKit/Classes/NSCell_Class/Reference/NSCell.html#//apple_ref/
doc/constant_group/Background_Styles


On Jan 14, 2008, at 2:51 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote:

> 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...
>
> Nick Zitzmann
> <http://www.chronosnet.com/>
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