Re: selectText of NSTextField on focus
On Jul 8, 2015, at 8:52 AM, Richard Charles rcharles...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have any insight as to why the animation does not occur the first time a text field is clicked? Filed Apple bug report 21758024. --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
Re: selectText of NSTextField on focus
@implementation MyTextField
- (void)mouseDown:(NSEvent *)event
{
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];
[super mouseDown:event];
}
@end
You're almost there, do [super mouseDown:event] first.
- Willeke
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Re: selectText of NSTextField on focus
On Jul 8, 2015, at 7:00 AM, Willeke willeke2...@gmail.com wrote:
@implementation MyTextField
- (void)mouseDown:(NSEvent *)event
{
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];
[super mouseDown:event];
}
@end
You're almost there, do [super mouseDown:event] first.
That works! Thank you so much for your help.
I have another question regarding focus ring animation for a text field. This
is a document based application. In the document window there are many text
fields. After opening a document window - the first time a text field is
clicked there is no focus ring animation. Thereafter when any text field is
clicked in the window the focus ring will animate.
Do you have any insight as to why the animation does not occur the first time a
text field is clicked?
--Richard Charles
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Re: selectText of NSTextField on focus
On Jul 7, 2015, at 8:27 AM, Willeke willeke2...@gmail.com wrote:
Op 6 jul. 2015, om 18:15 heeft Richard Charles rcharles...@gmail.com het
volgende geschreven:
Does anyone have any insight into what is going on?
The animation of the focus ring isn't finished. If the focus ring is switched
off, the text is selected.
Safari's Address and Search field calls setSelectedRange: of currentEditor in
mouseDown:
- Willeke
Yes Safari’s Address and Search field has the behavior that I am looking for.
First click selects the entire text field and you also get an animated focus
ring.
Exactly how to achieve that on OS X 10.10 (with or without a focus ring) is
another matter. I have parred back my custom NSTextField subclass to just what
is shown below. A custom NSNumberFormatter is used but I removed it. The only
other thing going on is the text field is programmatically placed in the super
view.
Your initial suggestion.
@implementation MyTextField
- (instancetype)initWithFrame:(NSRect)frame
{
self = [super initWithFrame:frame];
if (self) {
[self.cell setFocusRingType:NSFocusRingTypeNone];
}
return self;
}
- (void)awakeFromNib
{
[self.cell setFocusRingType:NSFocusRingTypeNone];
}
- (BOOL)becomeFirstResponder
{
BOOL result = [super becomeFirstResponder];
if(result) {
[self performSelector:@selector(selectText:) withObject:self
afterDelay:0];
}
return result;
}
@end
RESULTS: Text is selected but rapidly changes to no selection. No focus ring as
expected. Intermittent error Bad cursor rect event, flags = 256.
You say that Safari apparently does this.
@implementation MyTextField
- (void)mouseDown:(NSEvent *)event
{
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];
[super mouseDown:event];
}
@end
RESULTS: Text not selected. Focus ring normal. No error message.
Another version of what Safari may do.
@implementation MyTextField
- (void)mouseDown:(NSEvent *)event
{
[self selectText:self];
[super mouseDown:event];
}
@end
RESULTS: Text is selected but rapidly changes to no selection. Focus ring is
intermittent. No error message.
So in summary Safari’s Address and Search field has the behavior that I am
looking for. First click selects the entire text field and you also get an
animated focus ring. However on OS X 10.10 Yosemite nothing works for me except
performSelector:withObject:afterDelay: using a non-zero delay value.
--Richard Charles
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Re: selectText of NSTextField on focus
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
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Re: selectText of NSTextField on focus
Op 6 jul. 2015, om 18:15 heeft Richard Charles rcharles...@gmail.com het volgende geschreven: Does anyone have any insight into what is going on? The animation of the focus ring isn't finished. If the focus ring is switched off, the text is selected. Safari's Address and Search field calls setSelectedRange: of currentEditor in mouseDown: - Willeke ___ 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
Re: selectText of NSTextField on focus
On Jul 6, 2015, at 12:38 , Richard Charles rcharles...@gmail.com wrote: 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. My only other suggestion is that the frameworks might *always* issue a text selection, or at least the first time the text field is entered. (And you said this seems to be happening.) You might be able to override selectText: and use a flag to keep track of whether it’s the first time. ___ 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
Re: selectText of NSTextField on focus
On 6 Jul 2015, at 20:38, Richard Charles rcharles...@gmail.com wrote: 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]; No. Almost any time you have a delayed perform in your code, you’re doing something a bit dubious, and you’ve just wandered into proper dodgy territory, where your code is guaranteed to be unreliable. ___ 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
Re: selectText of NSTextField on focus
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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Re: selectText of NSTextField on focus
On Jul 6, 2015, at 10:54 , Richard Charles rcharles...@gmail.com 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. I’d suggest you try selecting the text in a delegate method (textDidBeginEditing or controlTextDidBeginEditing) instead. ___ 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
Re: selectText of NSTextField on focus
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
Re: selectText of NSTextField on focus
You want to select the text using the associated text view of the NSTextField
control.
--
Gary L. Wade (Sent from my iPhone)
http://www.garywade.com/
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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Re: selectText of NSTextField on focus
On Jul 6, 2015, at 16:16 , Richard Charles rcharles...@gmail.com wrote: Finder does something similar when renaming files and folders. The first click selects the file or folder. The next click selects the name of the file or folder ready for replacement. The third click will place the insertion point somewhere within the text field ready for fine grain editing of the file or folder name. In general, if the text field doesn’t look editable until you “click to edit” (click #2 in the above, because I assume you don’t have click #1 at all in your app), then I think it’s fine for it to do a select all (or select something-predefined-like-Finder-does), because there’s no expectation from the appearance of the text that you might start with a drag-to-select-and-begin editing. In your case, where the “click to edit” behavior is already expected by users, I don’t see a big problem in what you’re proposing, though I think the *classy* solution would be to have a subtle difference in appearance in the text field when a click is needed to start editing, even if it flies under the perceptual radar of experienced users. ___ 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
Re: selectText of NSTextField on focus
On Jul 6, 2015, at 4:09 PM, Quincey Morris wrote: Incidentally — this is the part where we make you sorry you asked the question — what are you trying to achieve here? Auto-self-selecting text fields are an incredibly annoying UI, if the user is ever likely to want to select only part of the field. The text field contains a numeric values like 58.35 or -2.41 or something similar. The gold standard for this type of application and this type of data is to have the contents of the text field selected when the user clicks on it so he or she can quickly key in a new value to replace the existing value. Behavior other than this is a pain and not appreciated by typical users of this application. Finder does something similar when renaming files and folders. The first click selects the file or folder. The next click selects the name of the file or folder ready for replacement. The third click will place the insertion point somewhere within the text field ready for fine grain editing of the file or folder name. --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
Re: selectText of NSTextField on focus
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 ___ 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
Re: selectText of NSTextField on focus
On Jul 6, 2015, at 09:15 , Richard Charles rcharles...@gmail.com wrote: I have a NSTextField subclass that selects all of the text when the user clicks it. Incidentally — this is the part where we make you sorry you asked the question — what are you trying to achieve here? Auto-self-selecting text fields are an incredibly annoying UI, if the user is ever likely to want to select only part of the field. If you’re selecting everything to allow it to be copied easily, then a “Copy” button next to the text is probably a better idea. If you’re selecting everything in order to cause it to be deleted on the first keystroke, a “Clear” button (probably an “x” icon button) similar to iOS search fields is probably a better idea. That is, if at all possible, augment the standard behavior, don’t change it. ___ 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
