Introduction to Boxes

A box is a simple view that can draw a border around itself and title itself. It visually groups together other views, including controls.

Organization of This Document

This topic discusses how to use the NSBox class.

• “Setting a Box’s Subviews” describes how to add subviews to a box.

• “Setting a Box’s Title” describes how to change the content and appearance of the box’s title.

• “Setting a Box’s Border Appearance” describes how to change the appearance of the box’s border.

• “Using a Box to Create a Separator” describes how to create visual separators similar to Carbon’s theme separator.

If you want to group several elements of the same class together, see Matrix Programming Guide.