Setting the cell on NSTextField

Question

I have a custom NSTextFieldCell that i want to set on a NSTextField.
If i set it on the IB it works fine.

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And this gets it working like this:

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But i want to set it programmatically and i try something like this:

-(void)awakeFromNib{

    NSRect theRect = NSRectFromCGRect( NSMakeRect(50, 100, 100, 100));
    NSTextField *inputField = [[NSTextField alloc] initWithFrame:theRect];
    DRKHUDTextFieldCell *theC = [[DRKHUDTextFieldCell alloc] initTextCell:@"textfield"];
    [inputField setCell:theC];

    [[_window contentView] addSubview:inputField];

    }

This is the result i get:

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What is going wrong? Is my code bad or what?

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 02 '17 at 07:28

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Here is a working solution in swift. Above Objective C answer was not complete and hence didn't work for me.

let cell = CustomTextFieldCell(textCell: "")
self.cell = cell
self.isBordered = true
self.backgroundColor = .white
self.isBezeled = true
self.bezelStyle = .squareBezel
self.isEnabled = true
self.isEditable = true
self.isSelectable = true

You need to reset all the properties if you replace cell property. These are default values, try setting your own values matching your case.

answered Aug 02 '17 at 07:28

adev

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hey mate, it has been 3 three years, i don't even remember what i was trying to do. Thanks for your time though, it might help someone else. – ozmax Aug 03 '17 at 08:08
@ozmax, Thanks. Please accept answer so people know there is a working solution – adev Aug 15 '17 at 06:32
@adev It's not a solution, bc now you have to subclass two objects (textfield and its cell) – John Smith Nov 24 '18 at 16:02
@JohnSmith, I am not sure if we need to subclass textfield since this has been a while and I don't remember if I was sub-classing that time. I had the same issue as in question and this is what fixed for me. Hence shared it for others benefit. I am hoping this same answer would work for cases where you are using directly `NSTextField` and somewhere you can set properties like this.(Note: Question was already about setting a subclassed cell, so that part is fine I guess) – adev Nov 26 '18 at 23:35
@adev Look, the problem is that even by subclassing nstextfield, you can't set any custom cell, not even a default NSCell(). If you set it at least programmatically, nothing will appear. I've spend a log time on it and the only option is to create a NSTextField in a storyboard or nib file and set the custom cell there – John Smith Nov 27 '18 at 15:13
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@JohnSmith, That is not true at least till an year back. I was subclassing and setting custom cell in my project at that time and that worked fine. Unfortunately I don't work with that company anymore so I dont have that code. But this was working fine for me without setting it in storyboard/xib. Probably you are doing something wrong in your code. It is worth asking a separate question since current question is not related to that. Take a look at this class [here](https://github.com/akhilcb/ACBTokenField/blob/master/Sources/ACBTokenField/Extensions/NSTokenField%2BACBExtension.swift) for eg: – adev Nov 27 '18 at 18:17

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 27 '13 at 11:57

Try this way, It is working fine:

 NSRect theRect = NSRectFromCGRect( NSMakeRect(50, 100, 100, 100));

    NSTextField *inputField = [[NSTextField alloc] initWithFrame:theRect];

    NSTextFieldCell *theC = [[NSTextFieldCell alloc] initTextCell:@"textfield"];

    [inputField setCell:theC];

    [inputField setBordered:YES];

    [inputField setBackgroundColor:[NSColor whiteColor]];

    [inputField setBezeled:YES];

    [inputField setBezelStyle:0];

   [[_window contentView] addSubview:inputField];

Setting the cell on NSTextField

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