[Gul Banana]

Some time ago, Rickster posted a tip about engraved text, mentioning that a good way to do it was to subclass NSTextFieldCell and draw it slightly differently, etc. Since I was bored recently and have never subclassed an control before, I thought I'd try that out. Here's my code:

Code:
@implementation EngravedTextFieldCell

- (void)drawInteriorWithFrame:(NSRect)frame inView:(NSView *)view
{
    NSLog(@"drawing engraved text");
    [self setTextColor:[NSColor whiteColor]];
    [super drawInteriorWithFrame:frame inView:view];
    frame.origin.y++;
    [self setTextColor:[NSColor blackColor]];
    [super drawInteriorWithFrame:frame inView:view];
}

@end

@implementation EngravedTextField

+ (Class)cellClass
{
    NSLog(@"setting cell class");
    return [EngravedTextFieldCell class];
}

@end

I have in my nib an EngravedTextField.. but neither of my NSLogs is ever called. What am I doing wrong?

[Rickster]

It's not very obvious, but apparently you need to set the cellClass during initialization and no later. So, add this to EngravedTextField:

Code:
+ (void)initialize;
{
    if (self == [EngravedTextField class])
        [self setCellClass: [EngravedTextField Cell class]];
}