[Porfiry]

Does anyone know how I would coax an NSTableHeaderCell to draw itself with a blue/graphite appearance (as if it were the selected column in a table view)?

No combination of setState, setHighlighted nor setEnabled seems to change the appearance the way I want.

Thanks,
Dave

[Rickster]

Use -highlightWithFrame:inView: instead of -drawWithFrame:inView:, IIRC.

[3R1C]

Im thinking I dont understand the question 'cuz the following works for me:


[tableView setHighlightedTableColumn: tableColumn];

[Porfiry]

3R1C, I'm trying to use the NSHeaderCell on its own, not part of any NSTableView in particular.

Rickster, your suggestion didn't seem to work. As far as I can tell, highlightWithFrame seems to produce the result as drawWithFrame.

Anyways, it's not essential, but it'd be nice to crack this nut.

[lindberg]

Maybe -highlight:withFrame:inView: ?

(inherited from NSCell, but it seems to be overridden in NSTableHeaderCell)

[Rickster]

Ah, posted the wrong method signature from memory since I didn't have the code handy. Here's the correct version, straight from a view I wrote recently that does exactly what you're talking about:

Code:
if ([[self window] isKeyWindow])
    [cell highlight:YES withFrame:cellRect inView:self];
else
    [cell drawWithFrame:cellRect inView:self];

Also, it'll only work if the current graphics context (i.e. the view you locked focus on) actually belongs to the current key window -- it won't work drawing into a cached NSImage, for example.