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Re: NSTextView question
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Re: NSTextView question


  • Subject: Re: NSTextView question
  • From: Ricky Sharp <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 11:30:13 -0600

On Thursday, March 16, 2006, at 10:28AM, Rudi Sherry <email@hidden> wrote:

>I have a window with an NSTextView and a button.
>
>I type into the NSTextView, then hit the button.  The action of the
>method gets the value of the text view with [ mTextView
>stringValue ] ...  but that is the old value, before I started editing.
>
>I find I have to hit <return> with focus at the NSTextView in order
>to have [ mTextView stringValue ] be the edited value.  I don't want
>to require this behavior.
>
>I tried [ mTextView validateEditing ] (from NSControl) but that
>didn't work either -- [ mTextView stringValue ] was still the old value.
>
>How do I get the edited value?

I believe you'll have the have the text field end any editing before obtaining the text.  There's some discussion here (see topic on Forcing the end of editing):

<http://tuvix.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/TextEditing/Tasks/BatchEditing.html>

There may be other (better?) techniques as well.

--
Rick Sharp
Instant Interactive(tm)

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