http://www.pastebuffer.com Code snippets and examples - by Matt Legend Gemmell Mon, 12 May 2008 11:10:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I often find myself constructing an NSColor object based on having sampled a color using the standard Color panel. The issue, of course, is that you need to divide the values in the picker by 255 to get the respective red/green/blue components for an RGB NSColor, as those constructors take ... http://www.pastebuffer.com/2007/10/05/constructing-an-nscolor-from-color-panel-values/ In this era of white-on-black (HUD) interfaces, we often want to change the text-color of NSButtons (including checkboxes and such). NSTextFieldCell has a -setTextColor: method, but NSButtonCell doesn't. You can use -setAttributedTitle: to achieve the desired result, but that's a bit of a hassle. Here's a simple little category on NSButton ... http://www.pastebuffer.com/2007/10/04/setting-the-text-color-of-an-nsbutton/