On Oct 22, 2007, at 3:23 PM, Martin Redington wrote:
Is the behaviour of Apple Mail's To Field what you're after?
That should give you some clues as to how to make it Mac like,
although I've never looked at the implementation.
I'd actually like a To: control like that in one of my apps, but
I've not been able to find a pre-rolled one (that handles the email
address retrieval as well).
NSTokenField (new in 10.4) supports auto-completion drop-downs
through delegate methods. It holds/edits an array of your custom
objects. It can display those Apple Mail address field blue lozenges,
but I just noticed that NSTokenStyle constant NSPlainTextTokenStyle
(no lozenge) might work for Mike's database app. Even if you don't
use it, you might get a design pattern idea from it.
Like Martin implies, for "To field" use, I had to write my own access
to the Address Book, and other things, that took about 400 lines of
code and a lot of time. As I recall, ABPicker has a lot more "for
free" re Address Book access if you don't mind its interface.
