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Connor
Connor

Reputation: 4168

Change background of window in Cocoa

Objective-C/Cocoa noob here. I'd like to make the window color in a little Mac app I'm making white, instead of the default light grey color. What's the proper way to do this?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4372

Answers (4)

eemmrrkk
eemmrrkk

Reputation: 1710

try this code,

-(void) awakeFromNib
{
    NSColor *red = [NSColor redColor];
    self.view.window.backgroundColor = red;
}

Upvotes: 0

NewStack
NewStack

Reputation: 990

In your interface builder in window attributes enable textured now you set whole window with your own color. then you can set your window color

[self.window setBackgroundColor:[NSColor redColor]];

Upvotes: 0

Anusha Kottiyal
Anusha Kottiyal

Reputation: 3905

In AppDelegate.m you can change the window color by just adding the line : 

self.window.backgroundColor = [NSColor whiteColor];

Upvotes: 1

Gabriele Petronella
Gabriele Petronella

Reputation: 108169

From the AppDelegate you can simply invoke the window property

self.window.backgroundColor = [NSColor whiteColor];

otherwise from any point of you application you can call

[[NSApplication sharedApplication] keyWindow].backgroundColor = [NSColor whiteColor];

keyWindow is the currently "on top" window, which is probably the only one if the application is simple. For more complicated scenarios where you need a different window you can use

[[NSApplication sharedApplication] windows]

which will return an array of all the windows owned by the application.

Upvotes: 5

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