NSSplitViewController-like inspector in custom view

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From the currently available information, it seems like the only way to get the new-in-Tahoe sidebar inspector effect is to use a NSSplitView in conjunction with NSSplitviewController & inspectorWithViewController:.

I'm currently trying to get the same inspector effect - which also affects the looks of controls inside the inspector, like text fields, which switch to a gray-ish background - in a totally custom splitter-like view hierarchy that is way more complex than NSSplitView and thus cannot inherit or take advantage of it.

Is there a way to integrate this effect in a custom view? Maybe using NSVisualEffectView or NSGlassEffectView?

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AAntonini OP

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If this cannot be done, is there another suggested way to make NSTextFields pop out of the background? Since the windowBackgroundColor and the background color of NSTextField are now exactly the same, they are really hard to visually see.

The app's UI is densely packed and we're using Small control size for them, exacerbating the issue.

The inspector effect seems to be the appropriate way to tackle this issue.

Looking at those in Xcode or Numbers.