MacOSLib: NSSearchField – Focus & Backgroundcolor

Targets macOS
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I love the comfort of MacOsLib’s supported NSSearchfield, but there are two drawbacks I couldn’t find any solution for yet:

Although I have Acceptfocus and UseFocusRing set to false in Inspector (and repeat that in the open event because I thought they could somehow get overridden), the search field still displays a blue border once the cursor is inside it. Is there a way to really switch the focus ring off?

And I’d like to have a different background color for the search field. According to the docs, it is based on an NSCell, which – according to Apple’s docs – has a setbackgroundcolor method. But I cannot find any handle to it; trying to override the paint event with a filled rect did only appear in the transparent round corners sections. Do you have any clue how to paint the inside differently?

And, btw: Is there a method to automatically place the cursor inside the Searchfield when there is no content in it yet?

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I’m unsure how to change the background color, but the AcceptFocus and UseFocusRing are from the canvas superclass of the NSSearchField and they will not prevent the search field from having a focus ring. This declare should disable the focus ring - put it in the NSSearchField open event:

Declare sub setFocusRingType lib CocoaLib Selector "setFocusRingType:" (obj_id as ptr, type as Integer) setFocusRingType(me,1)

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Thanks a lot, Jason! Works!