You want to select the text using the associated text view of the NSTextField
control.
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Gary L. Wade (Sent from my iPhone)
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> On Jul 6, 2015, at 10:54 AM, Richard Charles <rcharles...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> On Jul 6, 2015, at 10:15 AM, Richard Charles <rcharles...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have a NSTextField subclass that selects all of the text when the user
>> clicks it. This is accomplished by overriding becomeFirstResponder.
>>
>> - (BOOL)becomeFirstResponder
>> {
>> BOOL result = [super becomeFirstResponder];
>> if(result) {
>> [self performSelector:@selector(selectText:) withObject:self
>> afterDelay:0];
>> }
>> return result;
>> }
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2195704/selecttext-of-nstextfield-on-focus
>>
>> This has worked perfectly for years until 10.10 Yosemite. Now when the user
>> clicks into the text field nothing is selected.
>>
>> Also the following error will often occur on 10.10 Yosemite when clicking on
>> the text field.
>>
>> 2015-07-06 10:09:04.287 MyApp[727:15035] Bad cursor rect event, flags = 256
>>
>> Does anyone have any insight into what is going on?
>>
>> Thanks so much.
>>
>> --Richard Charles
>
> Update
>
> The documentation for -[NSTextField selectText:] states "If the receiver
> isn’t in some window’s view hierarchy, this method has no effect.”
>
> I have verified that the text field is in the window’s view hierarchy. I have
> verified that -[NSTextField selectText:] is getting called. (Actually it is
> getting called twice, once by the frameworks for some reason, and once by
> me.) Calling the method -[NSTextField isSelectable] returns YES.
>
> It appears that -[NSTextField selectText:] is broken in 10.10 Yosemite. It
> just does not work.
>
> --Richard Charles
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