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Re: Setting the contents of an NSTokenField programatically

Subject: Re: Setting the contents of an NSTokenField programatically
From: "Timothy J. Wood" <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 08:44:46 -0700
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On May 5, 2005, at 6:43 AM, Tim Gogolin wrote:

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?

The objectValue of a NSTokenField is an NSArray of tokens. The tokens can be strings or some class your delegate understands as the represented object for a token. So, -setStringValue: is presumably equivalent to -setObjectValue:[NSArray arrayWithObject:aString].

You should be able to call -setObjectValue: with the correct set of tokens. You'd still have to do the tokenization, but hopefully this is easy.

-tim

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