Setting the Appearance of a Button’s Border

You can control what your button’s border looks like by changing its shape and shading. Note that the border doesn’t appear if isBordered returns NO. Use setBordered: to change its value.

To change the border’s shape, change the button’s bezel type with setBezelStyle:. There are two major categories of bezel type.

• If your button is identified mainly by text, use NSRoundedBezelStyle. It uses the appropriate bezel style for a text button, which is a rounded rectangle, like this:

  

• If your button is identified mainly by an icon, use NSRegularSquareBezelStyle, NSThickSquareBezelStyle, or NSThickerSquareBezelStyle. These types use a rectangular button with a border. The small style has a 2-pixel border; the medium style, 3-pixel; the large style, 4-pixel. The three types are shown here: