I've created a UITextField on a screen using a custom font (Skia 100 point) and sitting on top of a UIImageView, but otherwise it is quite unremarkable. When it's not focused, the text shows normally, if a bit faint:
When it is focused, however, the entire area renders as a solid white rectangle:
I'd be willing to compromise on the look and feel of this screen if I could get it to render normally when focused, but nothing I've tried has changed it--I always get white-on-white. I read about a similar issue where they said this was due to custom background colors but I have not set a background color. In fact, even if I set a custom text color, it does not seem to take effect--it looks the same.
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I realized that suddenly (without me touching the corresponding code) my NSBox has a double visualization. It is as if the Box has a background color and draws its normal rounded frame inside. I added a small screenshot. The parent control is white, the NSBox is gray with the title "Inputs" (unchanged titlePosition). Under the title is the normal box, adding a 2nd shade of gray.
I did not change any of the usual suspects, especially not boxType which is still set to .primary.
I did work on the Dark Mode (Dark Aqua) but cannot see any change that would cause this behaviour. effectiveAppearance is still Aqua.
A NSBox with a boxType of .primary always draws a background. That is intended behaviour. Only if the view behind NSBox is white you may not see it. If you want a NSBox without background you must make it boxType .custom and set the background color as required.
In our OS X application, we have enabled window shadow by view.window?.hasShadow = true. This will create a fine shadow over NSWindow. We have created a hole in the application by a custom view to see the background through it, via its mask layer.
Our problem is that the shadow is visible in the hole region too. Can we make the shadow not appear in the transparent region. We have searched, but didn't get anything to clip window shadow at certain area.
This shadow is creating some problem in the application
We have given a button to collapse/expand the view which have the hole. So the hole will enlarge and shrink according to that. At this time window will not recalculate the shadow. We have tried the view.window?.invalidateShadow(). But it doesn't has any effect.
We are drawing some texts over the transparent region. When the expand collapse happens we can see the traces of the text drawn. It will always be there.
Every thing comes fine if we resize the application, which will recalculate the shadow. How we can overcome these issue. What will be the work around.
Good Afternoon helpful people!
I'm building a mac app that displays images. The app will be in fullscreen mode 100% of the time it is running.
My issue is that the images I am displaying do not fill the entire screen, therefore, showing a grayish background. Is there anyway to change this background color to Black? Or maybe it's the NSImageView that needs the background color changed?
I do not see anywhere in my Xcode Attributes Inspector to change color.
Thanks!
The solution to this is, in my case, to add an NSBox in storyboard and set its constraints so that it ALWAYS fills the view. Once you have done this, go to the Atrributes Inspector and change its Fill Color to your desired color.
The important part here is the constraints. Set Top, Bottom, Left, and Right space to 0. Hope that makes sense, i'm new to constraints.
I am trying to make a HUD with a transparent rounded window with opaque controls as is commonly seen in apps such as Xcode popups, the native volume control, etc.
I'm using the technique detailed here: How to implement HUD-style window like Address Book's "Show in Large Type"
but this renders controls in the view transparent. I've tried setAlphaValue:1.0 on the controls but that has no effect. Searches for other solutions point to Matt Gemmell's RoundedFloatingPanel component. I can't open the project in Xcode 4, but looking at the code as far as I can tell the only difference seems to be in Matt's code he sets the alpha of the window to 1.0 and uses a transparent fill for the NSRect in the view. I tried this but still end up with transparent controls.
So unsurprisingly, Matt Gemmell's code works just fine and I had made a mistake. I forgot that I was also messing with the alpha of the window elsewhere in my code in order to make it fade out on close.
To to sum it up for others running into this issue, if you set the alpha on the NSWindow the controls in that window will also be transparent. Instead set the alpha on the NSBezierPath fill color in the NSView. Just like Matt Gemmell's code does. :)
I'd like to create statusbar with text effect like in Safari or iTunes, i.e. recessed text.
However, if I simply add shadow in Interface Builder using Core Animation panel, OS X's worst text rendering kicks in:
What's the trick to get recessed text on a label and keep proper subpixel rendering?
There is a built-in way to do this:
[[yourTextField cell] setBackgroundStyle:NSBackgroundStyleRaised];
It's a cheap old trick: You draw the text in white at an offset and then draw the black text on top of it.
There is a hook for shadows in the text-drawing system, NSAttributedString's NSShadowAttributeName. But testing this out, it appears to kill the subpixel antialiasing as well.