objective c - Change background color of NSButton

Question

I have an NSButton in a mac application whose colour I'd like to change programatically but nothing I tried seems to work. I tried to create an output on the NSButtonCell and set the background color there but that didn't work either. Any code snippets would be helpful.

Answer 1

Assuming everything is hooked up in IB for your borderless button.

// *.h file
IBOutlet NSButton* myButton;

// *.m file
[[myButton cell] setBackgroundColor:[NSColor redColor]];

Note from the setBackgroundColor documentation:

"The background color is used only when drawing borderless buttons."

If this won't do it for you then you'll need to override NSButton and implement the drawing yourself.

Good Luck.