My app uses a number of numeric input fields, with sliders, to input
floating point values. I'd like the user to be able to press up/down
arrow to increase/decrease the input value by .001, and shift up/down
arrow to increase decrease the input value by .1, much like the way
Photoshop does.
As mentioned in a previous post, using a key binding and the
control:textView:doCommandBySelector method seems the way to do this,
but I can't find an explanation of how to do this, and am not clear on
how bindings work. If somebody could point me to a good reference that
covers the subject, or a sample app that uses key bindings to
implement special keys, that would be great.
Failing that, I tried to subclass NSTextField and add a -keyDown
method to my subclass. Other methods in my subclass, like
textShouldBeginEditing, (the delegate methods) get called, but not my -
keyDown method. I gather this has something to do with the way Cocoa
uses a single shared NSTextView object to manage all editing in a
window, but I can't figure out how to make it work.
Can somebody give me some suggestions? I'm at a loss as to how to make
this work.
