Re: Duplicating Apple search field UI
Re: Duplicating Apple search field UI
- Subject: Re: Duplicating Apple search field UI
- From: Greg Casey <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 13:13:10 -0500
You know... many of us are trying to duplicate Apple's search field UI,
since it is fairly prevalent throughout all of Apple's apps (including
the Finder and all of the iApps). It seems to me like Apple should just
go ahead and share the code necessary to implement this control because
it is in their best interest to make sure that we all present a
standard interface to our users.
I don't want to take this list off on a tangent, but I am hoping that
the Apple guys who monitor this list would take note of the fact that
we are all trying to mimic their search fields and provide some example
code for how to do it. :-)
Thanks!
-gtc
On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 03:07 AM, Keith Bauer wrote:
I'm trying to duplicate Apple's search field UI, where a piece of
grayed-out text indicates what will be searched as long as the field
is empty and doesn't have key focus.
I've subclassed NSTextField, and I can (apparently reliably) find out
when the user begins editing by overriding -becomeFirstResponder.
Unfortunately, I don't get a corresponding -resignFirstResponder when
the user stops editing the field. I can trap -textShouldEndEditing:,
and that works most of the time, but when the user clicks in the empty
text field and then clicks away again, I don't get any notification.
How can I reliably detect when my text field has gained and lost key
focus?
Thanks,
Keith
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