NSTextField - White text on black background, but black cursor

Question

Hi

I've setup an NSTextField with text color as white, and the background color as (black despite not rendering the background color, so its transparent). All in Interface Builder.

The problem I am having is the cursor is black, and hardly visible. Does the cursor not represent the text color? Any ideas how I can fix this?

Otherwise the NSTextField looks like it cannot be edited.

Answer 1

Your best bet is probably to use NSTextView and - (void)setInsertionPointColor:(NSColor *)color.

Answer 2

Assuming that you are wanting to set the color of the insertion caret and not the mouse cursor then the suggestion of using setInsertionPointColor: should work.

However, you do not necessarily need to change from using NSTextField to NSTextView. The field editor for window that the NSTextField is in is a NSTextView. So when your NSTextField becomes the key view you could grab the field editor and call setInsertionPointColor: on that. You may need to reset the color when your field stops being the key view.

You can get the field editor by using NSWindow's fieldEditor:forObject: or NSCell's fieldEditorForView:.

You can be notified of changes in the fields key state by using the delegate methods textDidBeginEditing: and textDidEndEditing:.