> On Jul 25, 2018, at 12:45 PM, Casey McDermott <supp...@turtlesoft.com> wrote:
> 
> Apple's instructions for combo boxes say:  "Note that while you can construct 
> your NSComboBox
> so that users are restricted to only selecting items from the combo box’s 
> pop-up list,
> this isn’t the combo box’s normal behavior."
> 
> For our use, we definitely want to restrict NSComboBox to only accept items 
> in the list.
> For accounting, we can't create new accounts on the fly from just a name, 
> especially if users make a typo.
> The goal is to auto-fill an account from what they type, and ignore typing if 
> not a match.
> 
> We searched sample projects, the archives here, and StackOverflow.  No 
> instructions on how to
> restrict it.  Has anyone here ever done it?
> 

I switched Behavior for Text Field in the Attributes Inspector from Editable to 
Selectable and it works, I can select from the list but I can’t type in text.

Hope that helps,
John

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