On Dec 18, 2014, at 12:57 AM, Jerry Krinock <je...@ieee.org> wrote:

> On 2014 Dec 17, at 22:32, Ken Thomases <k...@codeweavers.com> wrote:
> 
>> If you use a proper template image in a button whose showsStateBy includes 
>> NSChangeBackgroundCellMask, it will show a blue effect when the button's 
>> state is NSOnState.  (You don't normally explicitly set the showsStateBy of 
>> a button's cell, although you certainly can.
> 
> Ken, showStateBy, presuming it means “how to show the state”, sure seems like 
> it would be the trick I am missing.  How do you do that??  If you know, you 
> are smarter than both Xcode’s documentation viewer and even Google, who just 
> told me:
> 
>    Your search - showStateBy site:developer.apple.com - did not match any 
> documents.

You dropped an "s".  shows State By -> showsStateBy.
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSButtonCell_Class/#//apple_ref/occ/instm/NSButtonCell/showsStateBy

But, as I said, it's better to just set the button type to one which has the 
relevant showsStateBy behavior, like NSToggleButton.
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSButton_Class/index.html#//apple_ref/occ/instm/NSButton/setButtonType:
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSButtonCell_Class/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/c_ref/NSToggleButton

Regards,
Ken


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