Removing Border from NSBrowser

Question

As the title says, I actually want to remove the border from an NSBrowser control. The parents are NSView and NSControl. There's no available methods in NSBrowser itself, and neither in the parent controls. This one seems completely undocumented.

As to the reason for removing the border, because it's programatically docked into another view, so the view hierarchy means there's a border already.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Just embed it a plain NSView ("Custom View" in IB) and make the browser's frame "outset" by 1 point in all directions from the containing view's bounds. The containing view will clip the browser to eliminate the border. Then place that containing view into the surrounding view hierarchy, rather than adding the browser directly.

Answer 2

NSBrowser uses NSBrowserCell to implement its interface. That inherits from NSCell. NSCell should provide the methods you need.

From NSCell class reference... Managing Display Attributes – setBezeled: – isBezeled – setBordered: – isBordered – isOpaque – setControlTint: – controlTint – setBackgroundStyle: – backgroundStyle – interiorBackgroundStyle