How to change NSTextField text color on row selection?
cocoa, nstextfield
Solution
Depending on why you need to do this, there are 2 approaches.
You can subclass `NSTableRowView` and override `-[NSTableRowView interiorBackgroundStyle]` to return `NSBackgroundStyleLight`. This will tell the cells that they are on a light background and to draw dark text, which will be black.
The other way is to subclass `NSTableCellView` and override `-[NSTableCellView setBackgroundStyle:]` and set the colors yourself there.
Problem
For cocoa, I have an NSTableView set to be view based. When a row is selected, the text fields change their color to white. How do I keep it black? I should also note that the Highlight is set to Source List (it does the same thing on Regular). Unselected row Selected Row I was hoping for something similar to the state config for iOS: This was suggested in WWDC 2011 Session 120 but it's a bit delayed so I'm not going to use it. It may work for someone else though. ``` - (void)tableViewSelectionDidChange:(NSNotification *)notification { [tableView enumerateAvailableRowViewsUsingBlock:^(NSTableRowView *rowView, NSInteger row){ NSTableCellView *cellView = [rowView viewAtColumn:0]; if(rowView.selected){ cellView.textField.font = [NSFont boldSystemFontOfSize:14]; }else{ cellView.textField.font = [NSFont systemFontOfSize:14]; } }]; } ```