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Asked: 2026-05-23T09:51:29+00:00

I am trying to draw some text that is clickable. I am trying not

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I am trying to draw some text that is clickable.
I am trying not to use NSButton as my text is being drawn in drawRect and using NSButton in a drawRect makes it add the subview on top of itself unless you go through and remove all subviews on each call of drawRect.

I tried creating a NSButton and instead of adding it as a subview I am calling [myBtn.cell drawTitle: withFrame: inView:] which draws the text, but it is not clickable.

Is there a way to draw text (in a way like using drawInRect) but where I can also have the text be clickable?

If not, what would you recommend? Using a standard NSButton and clearing all the subviews each time?

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  1. Editorial Team

    One way I’ve seen this done before is to use an NSAttributedString. The part that’s clickable should be changed somehow (ie, have a different NSForegroundColorAttributeName and NSUnderlineStyleAttributeName) and then attach the NSURL to it with the NSLinkAttributeName.

    If I remember correctly, I believe this is an NSTextField subclass that does this: DSClickableURLTextField / Swift DSClickableURLTextField fork

    I would recommend not drawing the text yourself, because there are lots of things in AppKit that will do this for you. Why do you need to draw it yourself?

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