Adding Padding To The 'left' of a Text Field

cocoa, objective-c

Solution

Use a custom NSTextFieldCell that overrides drawingRectForBounds:. Have it inset the rectangle by however much you want, then pass than new rectangle to [super drawingRectForBounds:] to get the normal padding, and return the result of that call.

Problem

I have a text field with a background but to make it look right the text field needs to have some padding on the left side of it a bit like the NSSearchField does. How would I give the text field some padding on the left?

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