Re: AddressBook-like TextFields?
Re: AddressBook-like TextFields?
- Subject: Re: AddressBook-like TextFields?
- From: Justin Fagnani <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 10:29:13 -0700
On May 22, 2005, at 8:27 AM, Ryan Stevens wrote:
I'd start here; http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?CCDGrowingTextField
Thanks, but actually the growing text field effect is the thing I'm
least concerned about. I mainly want to get the shadowing and the
labeling, and the labeling part is easy.
Anyone else have any suggestions for my firstResponder situation?
I've tried some things with [NSView focusView], but that hasn't
yielded anything either.
-Justin
On May 21, 2005, at 12:56 PM, Justin Fagnani wrote:
So I've investigated and played around some more and determined
that as cool as the Address Book trick of subclassing NSTextView
and grabbing the selected range is, it won't work for me. The
reason is that I'm using CoreData and bindings and I want to set
everything up in IB.
So what I'm trying to do now is have a view that basically draws
custom focus rings along with TextField subclasses that display
their name in grey when there's no data.
I'm having a hell of a time getting anywhere though. I can iterate
through the subviews in drawRect and draw a rectangle around them,
but I can't figure out which one has the focus. I know the proper
terminology is firstResponder, but that's not really true either,
because as the knowledgeable folk here know, the firstResponder
when a TextField is selected is the windows FieldEditor. I can't
seem to find out which cell (it is individual NSTextCells that the
FieldEditor works for, right?) the FieldEditor is attached to. The
frame of the field editor is in the coordinate system of that view,
so that does me no good.
I've seen a few threads in the archives about this, but couldn't
come up with a clear answer.
Also, please correct me if I'm wrong about thinking about this as
if I want to draw a custom focusRing. I say it that way because it
seems like the focusRing is drawn by the parent view since it's
actually outside the edge of the view.
thanks,
-Justin
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