Question

I’m trying to get this blue border (which is around a NSTextFieldCell when you can edit the value) out of the way. Is there a way manage this somehow? At the same time the user should still be able to change the text just by double-clicking, though.

For the table itself I got rid of it by setting this Focus ring option to None. But I can’t find it for any Text Field unfortunately…

Answer 1

Don’t forget to check superclasses when looking in the docs for something. In this case, since NSTextFieldCell inherits from NSCell, you want to use -[NSCell setFocusRingType:].

The easiest way to get the cell before it becomes focused is probably the NSTableViewDelegate method tableView:shouldEditTableColumn:row:

- (BOOL)tableView:(NSTableView *)tableView 
shouldEditTableColumn:(NSTableColumn *)tableColumn 
                  row:(NSInteger)row 
{        
    NSTextFieldCell * cell = [tableColumn dataCellForRow:row];
    [cell setFocusRingType:NSFocusRingTypeNone];
    return YES;
}