Creating a label using NSTextField is blurry

Question

I\'m trying to create a label programmatically using NSTextField, but it comes out blurry: screenshot

This is my code so far:

NSTextfield *textfield          


        

Answer 1

Make sure you're setting the frame of your NSTextField to something with all integer values.

Use roundf() if necessary.

I was getting a blurry NSTextField, and neither adding a solid background nor removing Core Animation layers from my view hierarchy were options for me. I noticed I was setting the frame of this text field to something with a Y value of 4.5, so the following changes fixed the issue for me:

Blurry label:

_label.frame = NSOffsetRect(_labelFrame,
                            -0.5 * (someRect.size.width + someConstant),
                            0.0);

No blur:

_label.frame = NSOffsetRect(_labelFrame,
                            roundf(-0.5 * (someRect.size.width + someConstant)),
                            0.0);

(In the above examples, _labelFrame and someRect are NSRects, and someConstant is a CGFloat. As you can see, the calculation I was doing in the second line of the first example was passing a non-integer value to NSOffsetRect).