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Re: Setting the contents of an NSTokenField programatically

On May 4, 2005, at 10:51 PM, Tim Gogolin wrote:

Is there a sanctioned way to programatically set the contents of an NSTokenField (with contents that are tokens, not plain strings)? I want to preset the contents before the user sees the control, but I can't figure out a straightforward way to do it.


When you say, before the user sees the control, can you not set the value before you display the window?

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Scott Anguish
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That's what I'm trying to do, yes. Its just not behaving as I wish.
I am trying this in a controller instantiated in awakeFromNib, which is about as early as I can get. When I call setStringValue, the string is set AS PLAIN TEXT in the NSTokenField, when what I want to happen is for the little blue bubbles to appear. When I simply type that same string (as a user interacting with the window), then the tokens appear correctly (indicating that my tokenField:displayStringForRepresentedObject: is called and working correctly).

Apparently, setStringValue: does not trigger the same "check for tokens" logic that a user typing into the field causes. My question: How can I force the NSTokenField to look at the string contents of the entire field and "tokenize" it all?

-- Tim Gogolin
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