I've got a NSTextField (on a NSTabView). I open the window. I click
the text field and enter some text. Now I click on a button next to
it.
The value has still not been "committed" and it still has the cursor.
Then I click outside of the text field (just somewhere in the view)
and still the NSTextField does not lose it's focus.
What's going on? I looked through options in IB3. What do I need to
read up on?
Got it ...I had to set the firstResponder to nil in the IBAction
before I access the text field
[[self window] makeFirstResponder: nil];
If your intent was to have the text field set the value of a model key
via bindings, that's not the recommended way of doing it. You should
invoke the -commitEditing method of the controller. Do a full-text
search for that method and the NSEditor informal protocol for more info.