NSTextFieldCell

Inherits From: NSActionCell : NSCell : NSObject

Conforms To: NSCoding, NSCopying (NSCell) NSObject (NSObject)

Declared In: AppKit/NSTextFieldCell.h

Class Description

NSCells display text or imagesan NSTextFieldCell is simply an NSCell that displays text and that keeps track of its background and text colors. Normally, the NSCell class assumes white as the background when bezeled, and light gray otherwise, and the text is always black. With NSTextFieldCell, you can specify those colors.

Modifying Graphic Attributes

• - (NSColor *)backgroundColor Returns the color of the background.
• - (BOOL)drawsBackground Returns whether the NSTextFieldCell draws its own background.
• - (void)setBackgroundColor:(NSColor *)aColor Sets the color of the background to aColor.
• - (void)setDrawsBackground:(BOOL)flag Sets whether the NSTextFieldCell draws its own background.
• - (void)setTextColor:(NSColor *)aColor Sets the color of the text to aColor.
• - (id)setUpFieldEditorAttributes:(id)textObject Sets text attributes of the field editor to be the same as those of textObject. Used to set the attributes of text such as color and background color, for which there are no explicit methods.
• - (NSColor *)textColor Returns the color of the text.