How do I set the background colour of NSTabView?

Question

[tabView setBackgroundColor:[NSColor colorWithCalibratedRed:0.227f green:0.251f blue:0.337 alpha:0.8];  

The above code does not work :(

Thanks

Answer 1

NSTabView doesn't have a setBackgroundColor method, so I think you cann't use it as is. One of the approaches to solve it is subclassing NSTabView and override drawRect method. Check this version of custom tab control on github - https://github.com/ciaran/psmtabbarcontrol