I think what you probably want is to not use a custom field editor, but instead set your controller to the NSTableView's delegate (which it probably already is) and use the @"NSFieldEditor" key of the notification's userInfo dictionary to access the field editor. (Hopefully NSTableView isn't special and still calls controlTextDidChange: on its delegate; I can't remember).

If what you're doing is validating the field's contents, you might want to look at making an NSFormatter subclass and assigning it to your data cells.

Presumably the normal behavior disappears because the control is usually the delegate of the field editor, and it intercepts tab/return/ etc. and does its own thing with them (IIRC).

On Apr 2, 2008, at 11:54 PM, K.Darcy Otto wrote:
I need to intercept changes in my NSTableView's field editor, and I am able to do this successfully implementing controlTextDidChange: in my controller. I do this by having my controller create a field editor (fieldEd, an NSTextView) and setting the delegate of that field editor to my controller. Then, I use windowWillReturnFieldEditor: to return fieldEd, so that when the NSTableView wants to do some editing, it gets pointed to the right object. So far, so good.

The problem is that I lose some normal field-editor behaviour. In particular, the field editor does not give up control when I press <enter>, <tab> or <backtab>, but instead enters these characters directly into the field (there may be some other issues as well; arrows work as expected). How do I restore normal behaviour, and (for the interest's sake) why has normal behaviour disappeared? Thanks.

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