Re: selectText of NSTextField on focus
Re: selectText of NSTextField on focus
- Subject: Re: selectText of NSTextField on focus
- From: Quincey Morris <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2015 23:41:31 +0000
On Jul 6, 2015, at 16:16 , Richard Charles <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Finder does something similar when renaming files and folders. The first click selects the file or folder. The next click selects the name of the file or folder ready for replacement. The third click will place the insertion point somewhere within the text field ready for fine grain editing of the file or folder name.
In general, if the text field doesn’t look editable until you “click to edit” (click #2 in the above, because I assume you don’t have click #1 at all in your app), then I think it’s fine for it to do a select all (or select something-predefined-like-Finder-does), because there’s no expectation from the appearance of the text that you might start with a drag-to-select-and-begin editing.
In your case, where the “click to edit” behavior is already expected by users, I don’t see a big problem in what you’re proposing, though I think the *classy* solution would be to have a subtle difference in appearance in the text field when a click is needed to start editing, even if it flies under the perceptual radar of experienced users.
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