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Re: AddressBook-like TextFields?


  • Subject: Re: AddressBook-like TextFields?
  • From: Alexandre Aybes <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 11:06:44 -0700

Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but this has worked for me to check if a particular text field or text view has focus:

if ([myTextFieldOrTextView currentEditor] == [[myTextFieldOrTextView window] firstResponder])

One additional note though, if your text views overlap or your shadow overlaps text views you might encounter some drawing glitches, 2 views are not supposed to overlap (in which case you could do the drawing of the outline and the shadow in an overlay window).

Alex.

On May 23, 2005, at 10:29 AM, Justin Fagnani wrote:


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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