NSCell Custom Highlight

Question

I\'m trying to subclass NSCell to draw a custom background highlight. The documentation seems to suggest that the overriding highlight:withFrame:inView:

Answer 1

Thanks to the help of @Bavarious I've managed to work it out. My extended NSTextFieldCell class implementation now contains:

-(NSColor *)highlightColorWithFrame:(NSRect)cellFrame inView:(NSView *)controlView {
    return nil;
}

- (void)drawWithFrame:(NSRect)cellFrame inView:(NSView *)controlView {
    if ([self isHighlighted]) {
        // Draw highlight background here
    }

    [super drawInteriorWithFrame:cellFrame inView:controlView];
}

The key is to make sure you return nil for highlightColorWithFrame:inView: to stop drawInteriorWithFrame:inView: drawing a background and yet still calling it to draw the main content (in this case text).