Changing the background color of an NSButton

2008 05 01
Changing the background color of an NSButton

If you want to color or visually change one of your controls, the easiest way to do it is with Core Image. In Interface Builder, click wants Core Animation Layer, and add content filters.

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This one uses Color Monochrome to color the button. In Dynamic overloading : sample code, I used Color Matrix but strangely it's not available in my version of IB. Well, you can always set it up in code. It's better than overloading all NSButtons' drawRect — that's quite overkill to color just one button. :)

Gunnar

2009 04 26

Neat stuff. I don't think I'd have found this on my own. I think it's ok for some button styles, but I wonder if there's a way to tweak it so it doesn't color the grey pixels around anti-aliased text. Thanks for sharing.

Brian Palmer

2011 05 02

thanks, this took me all day to find. apple does not make things easy

Parmanoir

2008 05 01Changing the background color of an NSButton

2008 05 01
Changing the background color of an NSButton