Change selection color on view-based NSTableView

Question

Standard highlighting color in OS X applications is blue.

Is it possible to change it to another color, e.g. gray?

Note that I am using the new view-based

Answer 1

When using Swift you can do this on 10.10 for view based Cells

Subclass the NSTableCellView and implement this:

//override to change background color on highlight
override var backgroundStyle:NSBackgroundStyle{
    //check value when the style was setted
    didSet{
        //if it is dark the cell is highlighted -> apply the app color to it
        if backgroundStyle == .Dark{
            self.layer!.backgroundColor = yourColor
        }
        //else go back to the standard color
        else{
            self.layer!.backgroundColor = NSColor.clearColor().CGColor
        }
    }
}

Note that the NSTableView highlight style must be set to Regular if it is on SourceList it will cause some strange clipping.

This is not the cleanest solution but it works good on yosemite