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Re: Setting NSTextField inside drawRect:
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Re: Setting NSTextField inside drawRect:


  • Subject: Re: Setting NSTextField inside drawRect:
  • From: "Gerriet M. Denkmann" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:38:44 +0700


On 2008 Feb, 16, at 0:01, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote:

I have in 10.4.11 an NSWindow with a MyView and an NSTextField.

- (void)drawRect:(NSRect)rect
{
	[ [ NSColor redColor ] set ];
	NSRectFill( rect );
	[ textField setStringValue: @"Buh" ];

	//	without the following line, the textField will never show its
new text:
	[ self performSelector: @selector(textFieldUpdate)  withObject:
nil  afterDelay: 0.0 ];
}

- (void)textFieldUpdate { [ textField setNeedsDisplay: YES ]; }

Why does setting an NSTextField form inside drawRect: not work?

I can't say for sure, because you did not explain which class implementation the above code was copied from.
Sorry about this. It is the drawRect: of MyView.
But a possible explanation is that your drawRect: method is not drawing your
textField. When you implement drawRect:, you're the man! The system
assumes that drawRect: is going to draw ^everything^ in the rect
argument that it is given.
The NSTextField is not inside MyView, but below it; both are in the same window.

I have another app, where the setStringValue: inside drawRect: does trigger a display of the text field, but without erasing it - so that the old and the new text are both visible, one on top the other - looks rather messy; but this is not reproducible in my test app.

Kind regards,

Gerriet.

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