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Vertically Centre Text in NSSecureTextField with subclassing

Asked 2012-02-22T18:22:49.210
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I'm trying to vertically centre text in my NSTextFields, but one of them is for a password, so it's a NSSecureTextField. I've set it's class to be MDVerticallyCenteredSecureTextFieldCell with the following implementation:

- (NSRect)adjustedFrameToVerticallyCenterText:(NSRect)frame {
    // super would normally draw text at the top of the cell
    NSInteger offset = floor((NSHeight(frame) - 
                              ([[self font] ascender] - [[self font] descender])) / 2);
    return NSInsetRect(frame, 0.0, offset+10);
}

- (void)editWithFrame:(NSRect)aRect inView:(NSView *)controlView
               editor:(NSText *)editor delegate:(id)delegate event:(NSEvent *)event {
    [super editWithFrame:[self adjustedFrameToVerticallyCenterText:aRect]
                  inView:controlView editor:editor delegate:delegate event:event];
}

- (void)selectWithFrame:(NSRect)aRect inView:(NSView *)controlView
                 editor:(NSText *)editor delegate:(id)delegate 
                  start:(NSInteger)start length:(NSInteger)length {

    [super selectWithFrame:[self adjustedFrameToVerticallyCenterText:aRect]
                    inView:controlView editor:editor delegate:delegate
                     start:start length:length];
}

- (void)drawInteriorWithFrame:(NSRect)frame inView:(NSView *)view {
    [super drawInteriorWithFrame:
     [self adjustedFrameToVerticallyCenterText:frame] inView:view];
}

-(void)drawWithFrame:(NSRect)cellFrame inView:(NSView *)controlView
{
    [super drawWithFrame:cellFrame inView:controlView];
}

A similar subclass is already working for regular NSTextFieldCells, just not secure versions of this. It seems like Apple has somehow protected these methods from being overridden.

Now the password field is the only one misaligned:

objective-c macos nstextfield

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Try using a regular NSTextField, with your NSSecureTextFieldCell subclass inside. I had the same problem and this combination worked.

answered 2012-06-13T18:43:52.593

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