> On Jul 6, 2015, at 12:12 PM, Gary L. Wade wrote:
> 
> You want to select the text using the associated text view of the NSTextField 
> control.

Not sure what you mean by the "associated text view" of the control. Do you 
mean the field editor of the control? I have subclassed NSTextField and 
overridden becomeFirstResponder. NSTextField is a subclass of NSControl which 
is a subclass of NSView.


> On Jul 6, 2015, at 12:07 PM, Quincey Morris wrote:
> 
> On Jul 6, 2015, at 10:54 , Richard Charles wrote:
> 
>>       [self performSelector:@selector(selectText:) withObject:self 
>> afterDelay:0];
> 
> I dunno, but I suspect that this isn’t good enough. You’re merely guessing 
> that “on the next iteration of the run loop” is *after* the text field 
> finished becoming first responder, but it may take time to get the text field 
> into a state where its selection can be set.

Yes I think that is the case. The following code works.

[self performSelector:@selector(selectText:) withObject:self afterDelay:0.1];


> I’d suggest you try selecting the text in a delegate method 
> (textDidBeginEditing or controlTextDidBeginEditing) instead.

The delegate methods textDidBeginEditing: and controlTextDidBeginEditing: are 
not called when clicking into the view. They are called when the first edit is 
actually attempted. So that did not work.


In fiddling around with afterDelay: values this is what I found.

     afterDelay:0.01 // This did not work. Text not selected.

     afterDelay:0.02 // This works. Text is selected.

     afterDelay:0.1 // This works. Text is selected.

     afterDelay:1.0 // This works but the delay is too long.

So do you think I am safe using this call.

[self performSelector:@selector(selectText:) withObject:self afterDelay:0.1];

--Richard Charles


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