Hi everybody, This is my first message to the mailing list, I am a newbie in Cocoa so please bear with me... In my first serious MacRuby project, I have subclassed NSTextFieldCell and I have redefined drawInteriorWithFrame with the following code: def drawInteriorWithFrame( rect, inView:view ) icon = NSImage.imageNamed( "example" ) puts icon.methods.join( " " ) puts "icon is valid: #{icon.isValid} and has size #{icon.size}" icon.drawInRect( rect, NSZeroRect, NSCompositeSourceOver, 1.0 ) end (i.e: I am just trying to draw an icon) Here is what I get from the console: [Session started at 2008-11-13 09:01:01 +0000.] gem __super_objc_send__ enum_for to_enum object_id __id__ define_singleton_method public_method method display extend respond_to? public_send send __send__ instance_exec instance_eval __native__? tap is_a? kind_of? instance_of? instance_variable_defined? instance_variable_set instance_variable_get instance_variables public_methods private_methods protected_methods singleton_methods methods inspect to_s frozen? freeze untaint tainted? taint dup clone eql? !~ =~ === nil? != ! equal? == hash icon is valid: true and has size #<NSSize width=30.0 height=24.0> /Users/sicozu/Projects/iAmbient/build/Release/iAmbient.app/Contents/ Resources/PlaylistCell.rb:26:in `drawInteriorWithFrame:inView:': undefined method `drawInRect' for #<NSImage:0x10f2480> (NoMethodError) from /Users/sicozu/Projects/iAmbient/build/Release/iAmbient.app/ Contents/Resources/PlaylistCell.rb:15:in `drawWithFrame:inView:' from /Users/sicozu/Projects/iAmbient/build/Release/iAmbient.app/ Contents/Resources/PlaylistCell.rb:15:in `drawWithFrame:inView:' from /Users/sicozu/Projects/iAmbient/build/Release/iAmbient.app/ Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22:in `NSApplicationMain' from /Users/sicozu/Projects/iAmbient/build/Release/iAmbient.app/ Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:22:in `<main>' Can anybody please give me a hint of what I am doing wrong? Shouldn't I expect my instance of NSImage to respond to :drawInRect? And by the way, thanks a lot for this sweet MacRuby project !! Cheers, Pedro.