> 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 _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com