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Re: Finding the active NSTextField
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Re: Finding the active NSTextField


  • Subject: Re: Finding the active NSTextField
  • From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 11:12:34 -0700

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 22:42:59 -0600, David Catmull
<email@hidden> said:
>On Sep 12, 2004, at 11:21 AM, Matt Neuburg wrote:
>> The alternative, as I think you know already, is to poll all the text fields
>> and ask each of them in turn which has a non-nil currentEditor.
>>
> I already tried that without success - IIRC they all returned nil.
>
> I settled on using fieldEditor:forObject:. Since it returns nil only for the
> cases that I'm trying to check for, I'll just take that as a positive result.

I need hardly say that this makes no sense to me. Programming by guesswork
is not programming. I suggest that either you believe what these functions
are telling you (i.e. it's nil because no text field has a field editor) or
you figure out an approach that works. m.

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