Re: orderFrontCharacterPalette works... but with one potentially untenable requirement
Re: orderFrontCharacterPalette works... but with one potentially untenable requirement
- Subject: Re: orderFrontCharacterPalette works... but with one potentially untenable requirement
- From: Joshua Scott Emmons <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:22:35 -0600
If I create a new user, and run the application on their
account, this
call does nothing. If I select "Show Character Palette" from the
International menu, then the call to NSApplication.
orderFrontCharacterPalette works fine every time after that.
I am having a different experience (OS X 10.4.4, XCode 2.2).
I create a new Cocoa Application in XCode. I put one button on it in
IB. I create a subclass of NSObject called MyController. I give
MyController an IBAction of -clicked:. I instantiate MyController in
IB. I wire my one button to -clicked: in IB. -clicked:'s
implementation is as follows:
-(IBAction)clicked:(id)sender{
[[NSApplication sharedApplication] orderFrontCharacterPalette:self];
}
When I run this application as a new user, the character pallet pops
up just fine. The strange thing is, if the input menu (the one that
looks like a nation's flag) isn't already present in the menu bar,
pressing this button forces it to appear there with "Hide Character
Palette" being the only enabled option. When I close the character
palette, the input menu persists in my menu bar.
Interestingly, clicking on Edit -> Special Characters… also brings up
the character palette, but DOES NOT force the input menu to show. It
looks like Special Characters… is added by the OS as it doesn't show
up in any of the nibs I've seen. It also seems as though Special
Characters… does not use -orderFrontCharacterPalette: to display the
palette (seeing as it can do so without forcing the input menu item
to appear).
So, to sum up: unlike you, I am able to display a character palette
with -orderFrontCharacterPalette: even with a fresh new user. Like
you, I find that -orderFrontCharacterPalette: has some strange
undesirable side effects that clicking on Edit -> Special
Characters… does not produce.
Really curious to learn more about this,
-Joshua Emmons _______________________________________________
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