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Question

I am trying to achieve this “effect” in cocoa (photo taken from Things.app from Cultured Code):

Answer 1

PXSourceList makes it easy to create a list of sources.

Answer 2

Try using NSTableView or NSOutlineView with the selection style set in the list of sources:

[outlineView setSelectionHighlightStyle: NSTableViewSelectionHighlightStyleSourceList]

Then create a custom NSCell class that displays your icon and text.