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How do I draw an inner shadow on a text in Cocoa for Mac OS X?
I am subclassing NSView to create a placeholder control with a gradient background and an inner shadowed text title over it.
All current Core Graphics answers on stackoverflow seem to explain drawing text shadows on Cocoa Touch.
You might think too complicated. If I get your problem right, the only thing you actually want to do is to set the text style. Then do so by simply using:
where object is an instance of the class NSTextField.
This handles everything for you. Your gradient background then could be reached for example by using a custom view with a NSGradient. See here
Advantage: You have a proper instance of NSTextField without the need to subclass it or to do other unneeded things like implementing everything a NSTextField does in a subclass of NSView on your own.