[macrophyllum]

I was wondering how you can get nice looking text for a brushed metal interface. Black looks alright, but I really like the way text looks on "Backup" (Apples little utility). It looks like it was engraved into the "metal". Anywayone have any suggestions?

[Rickster]

Engraved text is easy: draw the text white, then move upwards one pixel and draw it black.

Two ways to do it:
1. Duplicate every text field in your nib, with a black version overlapping a white version. Hard to edit the text, though, since you have to do it twice, and once on a field that'll be hard to click.
2. Make a trivial subclass of NSTextFieldCell, and override -drawInteriorWithFrame:inView: to twiddle the rect and the colors in between calling super twice.

[macrophyllum]

Once again Rickster, you've given me some great help! Thanks.