Displaying Text in a window

Scripting Forums AppleScriptObjC and Xcode
#1

So I have been scouring the Objective-C documentation and Googling all over the place, but I can’t seem to figure out how to display text in a window.

Here is the code that sets up and displays the window (this is not my code, it is something I found on a Keyboard Maestro form and did some modifications on).

tell (NSWindow's alloc()'s ¬
			initWithContentRect:{{theWidth, theHeight}, {640, 480}} ¬
				styleMask:NSBorderlessWindowMask ¬
				backing:NSBackingStoreBuffered ¬
				defer:true)
					
			setOpaque_(yes)
			setAlphaValue_(0.5)
			setBackgroundColor_(NSColor's grayColor())
			setReleasedWhenClosed_(yes)
			setExcludedFromWindowsMenu_(yes)
			orderFrontRegardless()
			delay 5
			|close|()
		end tell

I’d like to use this as an alert, so displaying text in a large size would be great. But at this point I’d be happy to display text of any size in that window just to get me started on the right path.

I can post the entire script if it helps.

Thanks

#2

You need to create an NSTextField and add it to your window’s contentView. But if you’re using Xcode, you’d be better to do it in its Interface Builder.