Creating a checkbox programatically using Cocoa

Question

I need to create a checkbox programatically in Cocoa and when I try and make a button with ButtonType set to NSSwitchButton it displays the title I gave it but not checkbox. I think I am missing something but I can't find any resources about making things like checkboxes without using the XCode GUI. Can anyone link a good resource please. Also, I don't think posting my code would be to useful because it is all wrapped in a custom lisp API.

Answer 1

I don't think buttons are bezeled by default when created programmatically. Check the setBezelStyle: method, as well as setBezeled: and setBordered:. One of those should give you what you want.

Answer 2

I had failed to execute setImagePosition properly and this was causing the checkbox not to display.

Answer 3

The question is a little old so you've probably already figured it out, but I found it while searching for this exact thing. Alex danced around the solution without actually providing it. So here, for Google and all mankind: how to programmatically create a checkbox in Cocoa.

NSRect frame;
frame.size.width = frame.size.height = 18;
NSButton *myCheckBox = [[NSButton alloc] initWithFrame:frame];
[myCheckBox setButtonType:NSSwitchButton];
[myCheckBox setBezelStyle:0]; //This is unnecessary. I include it merely to show that checkboxes don't have a bezel style.

[myView addSubView:myCheckBox];