Hiding NSSlider's tick marks

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Is there a way to hide the tick marks of NSSlider?

Do you want to do this in Interface Builder or through code? — , Apr 22 '11 at 14:06

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 23 '11 at 23:04

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If you want to keep the tickmark stopping behaviour but hide them, you can override the NSSliderCell's -(NSRect)rectOfTickMarkAtIndex:(NSInteger)index and provide a rectangle with 0 dimensions.

answered Jul 23 '11 at 23:04

Tristan Warner-Smith

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up for this most correct way! -(NSRect)rectOfTickMarkAtIndex:(NSInteger)index { return NSZeroRect; } – Jiulong Zhao May 22 '13 at 22:56

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 22 '11 at 14:08

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You can use the -[NSSlider setNumberOfTickMarks:] method to set the number of tick marks to zero. This will hide them.

In Interface Builder you can just set this to zero in the inspector panel.

answered Apr 22 '11 at 14:08

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Yes, but then it won't stop at Integers values. I am using tick marks so the user can only stop at say 5 rather than 5.5. But if I remove the tick marks, then the slider can stop anywhere. Thanks for the input though. – user635064 Apr 22 '11 at 16:33
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@user: Just set up a `NSNumberFormatter` that only outputs integer values. :) – sudo rm -rf May 07 '11 at 04:32

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 06 '15 at 21:09

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You can override [NSSliderCell drawTickMarks] and do nothing in your implementation.

Make sure to set your subclass as the NSSlider's cell.

answered Jun 06 '15 at 21:09

Yoav

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That used to work, but stopped working for us in 10.14. Overriding rectOfTickMarkAtIndex still works. – Avitzur Oct 12 '18 at 23:13

Hiding NSSlider's tick marks

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