NSTextField text not showing

Question

I am trying to draw a text with background color and border radius, but the text does not show.

I've used sizeToFit to make the textfield fit its content.

When the below code is added to its superview, this is what is shown:

As you can see, the text is missing even though the view has adjusted itself to fit the text. I have tried setting a huge frame but its the same issue.

    let text = NSTextField(frame: NSRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 0, height: 0))
    text.stringValue = "ABC"
    text.sizeToFit()
    text.wantsLayer = true
    text.isBordered = true
    text.drawsBackground = true

    let textFieldLayer = CALayer()
    text.layer = textFieldLayer
    text.backgroundColor = NSColor.blue
    text.layer?.backgroundColor = NSColor.blue.cgColor
    text.layer?.borderColor = NSColor.red.cgColor
    text.layer?.borderWidth = 1
    text.layer?.cornerRadius = 5
    text.textColor = NSColor.red

    let positionRelativeToScreen = toOrigin(point: positionFlipped, size: text.frame.size)
    let positionRelativeToWindow = borderWindow.convertPoint(fromScreen: positionRelativeToScreen)
    text.frame.origin = positionRelativeToWindow
    return text

Possible duplicate of [Swift NSTextField text disappears](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44396370/swift-nstextfield-text-disappears) — Willeke, Sep 13 '19 at 13:50

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 13 '19 at 14:47

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Solution was to remove textFieldLayer. Thanks @Willeke!

answered Sep 13 '19 at 14:47

Dexter Leng

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