[DayLateDon]

Hello ...

I want to gray out the label text accompanying a disabled pop-up button. Disabling the text field has no visual effect; setting the textColor to [NSColor disabledControlTextColor] or [NSColor lightGrayColor] works, but the label text is still much darker than the titles of disabled radio buttons and check boxes nearby. I can concoct a color from RGB components, but I don't know what the "official" values are supposed to be so that the labels match the disabled radio buttons and check boxes.

What's the magic formula?

By the way: I'm disabling elements in an NSBox by stepping through the subviews (of the subview) of the box with an array enumerator, checking whether each element "respondsToSelector:@selector(setEnabled", and, if so, disabling that element. It's straightforward enough (except for graying out the text fields), just a very few lines, but I'm wondering if I might be missing "the" solution.

Thanks,

DayLateDon

[geowerker]

I just found this in the documentation:

<a href="http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/TasksAndConcepts/ProgrammingTopics/DrawColor/Tasks/SystemColors.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000790" target="_blank">Cocoa Documentation - System Colors</a>

"A number of system colors, while still valid, are no longer meaningful under Aqua. These include any of the ones with 'control' in their name. They return the old Platinum appearance colors which are usually a shade of gray."

I wanted the same info; I guess that's why pixie is included with the developer tools so you can just manually set RGB values. Seems wierd.