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How do you give a text field a default font and some padding?

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In answer to your first question, you can change the font of an NSTextField by using the setFont:size: method (since NSTextField inherits from NSControl - docs here):

NSTextField *textField;     //Pointer to your text field
...
NSFont *f = [NSFont fontWithName:@"Arial" size:12];
[textField setFont:f];

In answer to your second question, I think that this may point you in the right direction - however you will have to adapt the code to apply padding on the left-hand side of the text field rather than the right.

Perspx 2009-05-09 07:50:55

Where would i enter this code, should I put it into a new class file and link it up to the text field?

Joshua 2009-05-09 10:10:13

If the text field is created in a NIB/XIB file, then I would create a controller class for your application (unless one already exists) and implement it in the awakeFromNib function for your class (apologies, I meant to refer to the textField pointer as an outlet, perhaps I should have made that more clear); if you're creating the text field programatically then you can set the font upon creation. Of course if you are going to subclass NSTextFieldCell as shown in the link I posted then the methods for that go in your subclass's implementation file.

Perspx 2009-05-09 10:21:03

I see, so is as simple as just copying and pasting that code above into the controller

Joshua 2009-05-09 10:37:51

I meant to say, so is it as simple as just copying and pasting that code above into the controller?

Joshua 2009-05-09 10:38:17

Yes, to solve your question regarding setting the text field's font.

Perspx 2009-05-09 10:44:10

Just experimented and I made it work thanks to your code. Do you know where I should paste the code from the topic about the padding? Does it need to be in another controller?

Joshua 2009-05-09 10:44:27

As the user said, you need to create a class which is a subclass of NSTextFieldCell (which controls the user interface of the text field), which is where you implement the custom behaviour of your text field that you require; take a look at the PhotoSearch example code that is posted, and also look at http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/Cocoa/Conceptual/ControlCell/ControlCell.html

Perspx 2009-05-09 11:00:33

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