My NSButton with icon has no icon

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12443881

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cocoa
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appkit
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02-07-2021
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Question

I have an NSButton in a nib that is set to an icon, and only an icon:

Screenshot of Xcode with the button selected, showing its image name set to NSQuickLookTemplate

When I run the app, the icon, despite being one of the images provided by AppKit, is missing:

Screenshot of the button in my app at run time, showing no image

What's going on here? Why isn't my button's icon showing up?

Solution

Okay. In my little sample app I just created, I was able to get the icon to appear (took a bit of doing, though). Summed up, you need to change the button type to "Bevel" and increase the height if necessary.

Apparently "Push"-style NSButton types are too narrow to display the icon comfortably.

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