macos - Can't change the mouse cursor of a NSTextField

Question

I'm trying to change the mouse cursor of a NSTextField in a window sheet, loaded from a NIB.

Following the documentation, I have subclassed NSTextField and implemented resetCursorRects.

- (void) resetCursorRects {
    [self addCursorRect:[self bounds] cursor:[NSCursor pointingHandCursor]];
}

This is never called. Not even after adding the following in the NSWindowViewController:

- (void) windowDidLoad {
    [self.window invalidateCursorRectsForView:self.linkTextField];
}

I also tried with a tracking area by adding the following in the NSTextField subclass:

- (void) awakeFromNib {
    NSTrackingArea* trackingArea = [[NSTrackingArea alloc] initWithRect:self.bounds
                                                 options:(NSTrackingCursorUpdate | NSTrackingActiveAlways)
                                                   owner:self
                                                userInfo:nil];
    [self addTrackingArea:trackingArea];
}

- (void)cursorUpdate:(NSEvent *)theEvent {
    [[NSCursor pointingHandCursor] set];
}

Didn't work either. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Clickable links with NSTextField

I got this working after subclassing NSTextField as mentioned :

- (void)resetCursorRects {
    [self addCursorRect:[self bounds] cursor:[NSCursor pointingHandCursor]];
}