How do you give a text field a default font and some padding?

Question

What I am looking to do is change the default font of a text field and give it some padding so that when a person starts typing they will start typing further in from the edge of the text field.

Sorry, If my question is quite vague, i don't mean to be, if you need some more information just comment.

Answer 1

In answer to your first question, you can change the font of an NSTextField by using the setFont:size: method (since NSTextField inherits from NSControl - docs here):

NSTextField *textField;     //Pointer to your text field
...
NSFont *f = [NSFont fontWithName:@"Arial" size:12];
[textField setFont:f];

In answer to your second question, I think that this may point you in the right direction - however you will have to adapt the code to apply padding on the left-hand side of the text field rather than the right.