Re: NSTextView and First Responder
Re: NSTextView and First Responder
- Subject: Re: NSTextView and First Responder
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 13:24:51 -0400
on 02-04-24 11:30 AM, John Tsombakos at email@hidden wrote:
>
> If I recall correctly, the Aqua Human Interface
>
> Guidelines state that an
>
> application window should not show a live cursor in any
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> text field or view
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> when the window first opens. Instead, the user should
>
> have to hit the tab
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> key or click to give keyboard focus to the first text
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> field. I believe the
>
> reason has to do with avoiding accidental data changes if
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> the user hits the
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> keyboard while a window is opening. So the behavior
>
> you're seeing is
>
> correct, even with a first responder designated in IB.
>
>
Even for a text editor/word processor? TextEdit shows a
>
cursor, BBEdit (while not Cocoa) does, and Word (granted,
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not the "Model Apple HI" application) does. I would think
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for a new, blank window that has one text field/view, the
>
cursor would show. For a window with several text fields
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showing data, I agree with the design.
I think you're right. I should have qualified my initial statement by
indicating that I was talking about windows with multiple text fields or
text views.
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