NSView

[Mars_999]

Is it possible when you display text as a line in a NSView to click on it with a mouse to select the whole line? and send that info to a String? I would think so but have never done it or seen anything about it. Thanks

[GoodDoug]

Is there a reason you can't use an NSTextField? What you prpose is possible, but it will require you to reimplement a lot of code the Cocoa engineers have already done.

[Feanor]

NSView doesn't have text features itself, but NSTextView does. If you are just drawing text onto a view, that stops being text once it's drawn. NSTextView (or NSTextField) supports selection and spelling and all that nice stuff with no work from you.

[Mars_999]

I will have to check that out tomorrow, due to I just got home and can barely stay awake! But what I want to do is display files in a drawer panel and allow the user to see them and then if they want to click on a file to access it. Plus I want to have the file be highlighted with color. e.g. blue or whatever? Thanks

[Steven]

Use an NSTableView. The row data can be NSAttributedStrings, which allow you to use color and such.
Steven