Fwd: Fielding a mouseDown in a textField
Fwd: Fielding a mouseDown in a textField
- Subject: Fwd: Fielding a mouseDown in a textField
- From: Charlie Dickman <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:39:41 -0400
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Charlie Dickman <email@hidden>
> Date: April 5, 2012 9:28:41 AM EDT
> To: Graham Cox <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Fielding a mouseDown in a textField
>
> Sorry.
>
> I am writing a Sudoku program and for a standard sudoku puzzle text fields do the job just fine.
>
> I am adding killer sudoku to it and I want to use the same text fields for it. To define the zones I want to use the ability of the text field to draw its background in different colors. When the program enters the mode for the user to enter a puzzle of his/her own I want to use a mouse click in a text field to present the color chooser and determine which field gets the color.
>
> I am able to accomplish this by going into a modal state waiting for a mouse click and then determining which field, if any, was clicked by comparing the location of the click to each field's frame until I find the appropriate one.
>
> It would be neater if I could field the click in the field directly.
>
> On Apr 5, 2012, at 1:27 AM, Graham Cox wrote:
>
>>
>> On 05/04/2012, at 9:51 AM, Charlie Dickman wrote:
>>
>>> Good people,
>>>
>>> How do I go about fielding a mouseDown event in an NSTextField?
>>
>>
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>> For what purpose? NSTextField generally works without you having to do anything special. If you have some unusual requirement, you'll need to tell us what it is.
>>
>> --Graham
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>>
>
> Charlie Dickman
> email@hidden
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>
>
Charlie Dickman
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