cocoa objective-c: Change background color of custom view

Question

If I have a bunch of custom views that I made in IB, how can I set up a background color for each when the app awakesFromNib?

I've you've made the views in Interface Builder, why not just set the required background colo(u)r there? — John Parker, Jan 16 '11 at 12:59
A quick search on Stack Overflow yields two equivalent questions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2962790/best-way-to-change-the-background-color-for-an-nsview and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3781326/subclass-nsview-to-change-background-color — , Jan 16 '11 at 13:00
@Bavarious Hmm... neither of those questions are particularly epic (or usefully generic) it has to be said. — John Parker, Jan 16 '11 at 13:02
@middaparka Be that as it may, a good question would have referred to those two questions had the OP done his homework. ;-) — , Jan 16 '11 at 13:05

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 16 '11 at 15:46

7

In your NSView subclass:

- (void)drawRect:(NSRect)aRect
{
    [[NSColor redColor] set];
    NSRectFill([self bounds]);
}

answered Jan 16 '11 at 15:46

Joshua Nozzi

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