Re: Need clarification on categories
Re: Need clarification on categories
- Subject: Re: Need clarification on categories
- From: "Erik M. Buck" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 14:45:46 -0600
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Rollefson" <email@hidden>
To: "Erik M. Buck" <email@hidden>
Cc: "Cocoa-Dev Mail" <email@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: Need clarification on categories
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On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 11:18 AM, Erik M. Buck wrote:
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>> The reason I'm suffering feelings of doubt is that the method I'm
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>> trying
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> to
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>> implement in a category is a delegate method, and it doesn't get called
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> when
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>> I think it should. Specifically, the NSControl class reference document
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> says
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>> the controlDidBeginEditing: delegate method will be called whenever a
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>> text-based field is edited in any control that implements the method.
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>> But
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>> when I implement the method in a category on NSControl, it doesn't get
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>> called. For example, I click into a field in an NSForm and type a
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> character,
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>> but controlDidBeginEditing: doesn't get called.
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>>
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> I think the documentation lies. It might get called if you make the
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> control
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> its own delegate.
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Please check the documentation before saying it lies -- we do our best
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to keep it accurate. The documentation for controlTextDidBeginEditing:
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(the actual name of the method; there is no controlDidBeginEditing:
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method) is this:
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I apologize for any offense given. I replied to a previous quote that
quoted the documentation. Since the quote was erroneous, by assertion that
the documentation "lied" was also erroneous. I was correct that the quoted
text was incorrect. The quoted text was not an accurate quote.
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