> On Jul 6, 2015, at 5:49 PM, Joel Norvell <framewor...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi Richard, > > When the instance of your NSTextField subclass becomes first responder, you > have access to the NSText object (the field editor) and I believe you can use > its methods to select the text. (I don't see why you can't, but since I > haven't tried it myself, I'm saying "I believe.") > > Sincerely, > Joel > > Override - (BOOL)becomeFirstResponder in your subclass. > > Get the field editor: > > NSText * itsText = [[self window] fieldEditor:YES forObject:self]; > > Use -selectAll or -setSelectedRange
Yes I have access to the field editor for the NSTextField. Directly setting the selection using the field editor however does not work. - (BOOL)becomeFirstResponder { BOOL result = [super becomeFirstResponder]; if(result) { NSText *editor = self.currentEditor; assert(editor && "Current editor is nil!"); assert(editor.isFieldEditor && "Editor not a field editor!"); NSRange range = NSMakeRange(0, editor.string.length); [editor setSelectedRange:range]; } return result; } The above code does not work. There is some sort of interaction between NSTextField (and or the field editor) and the runloop that has changed for the worse in OS X 10.10 Yosemite. The only code that works is to override becomeFirstResponder and then schedule the selectText: message with the runloop to execute after a non zero delay. I have not been able to get anything else to work. A comment by Daniel Wabyick at the end of this stackoverflow question suggests that this was a problem in OS X 10.9 Mavericks but have been unable to duplicate that. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2195704/selecttext-of-nstextfield-on-focus So in summary in OS X 10.10 selecting all the text of an NSTextField when the user clicks it has become difficult. --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