Cocoa Drawing Clickable Text

I am trying to draw some text that is clickable. I am trying not to use NSButton as my text is being开发者_如何学运维 drawn in drawRect and using NSButton in a drawRect makes it add the subview on top of itself unless you go through and remove all subviews on each call of drawRect.

I tried creating a NSButton and instead of adding it as a subview I am calling [myBtn.cell drawTitle: withFrame: inView:] which draws the text, but it is not clickable.

Is there a way to draw text (in a way like using drawInRect) but where I can also have the text be clickable?

If not, what would you recommend? Using a standard NSButton and clearing all the subviews each time?

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One way I've seen this done before is to use an NSAttributedString. The part that's clickable should be changed somehow (ie, have a different NSForegroundColorAttributeName and NSUnderlineStyleAttributeName) and then attach the NSURL to it with the NSLinkAttributeName.

If I remember correctly, I believe this is an NSTextField subclass that does this: DSClickableURLTextField / Swift DSClickableURLTextField fork

I would recommend not drawing the text yourself, because there are lots of things in AppKit that will do this for you. Why do you need to draw it yourself?