Simple mouseover effect on NSButton

Question

I am creating a custom NSButtonCell for a custom rendering.

Now, I want to have different aspect depending if the mouse is over the button or not. How can

Answer 1

You need to Subclass the NSButton class (or even better the NSButtonCell class). As Justin said if you put the two method

- (void)mouseEntered:(NSEvent *)theEvent;
- (void)mouseExited:(NSEvent *)theEvent;

They should get called when the mouse enter and exit the area. You may also need to re create the tracking area, look here:

- (void)updateTrackingAreas

For fade in and fade out effect I played with animator and alpha value for example:

[self animator]setAlphaValue:0.5];