Hey Jerry -
A couple of comments.
If you want to call super's super method, one way to do that is to put
a category on you super class with a method name that is unique that
invokes the selector you want on super. If that sounds evil, that's
because it is :). Calling super super is usually a hint that some
refactoring would be a better choice. In this case you don't have a
choice though since NSTextView isn't your class. NSTextView has you
covered though.
You may not know this, but when you edit an NSTextField, you're
actually typing into an NSTextView. So NSTextView already has all of
the logic to "act like a text field". I believe the property that
controlls this is 'isFieldEditor'. I don't have access to the
reference docs right now to double check though.
Yet another possibility would be to ovveride insertTab: and
insertBackTab: instead of keyDown:, however, I think toggling
isFieldEditor is your best bet.
From my phone -
Jon Hess
On Aug 21, 2008, at 1:22 AM, Jerry Krinock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
When the 'tab' or 'backTab' key is pressed, NSTextView accepts it as
a character to be typewritten. But sometimes I want NSTextView to
behave like an NSTextField, with 'tab' or 'backTab' selecting the
next or previous key view. So, in my NSTextView subclass, I over-
ride -keyDown: and re-implement the next/previous view selection.
It works, but, besides being redundant code, this re-implementation
seems like an evil assumption of some other class' behavior by my
subclass. What I really want to say is: "Behave like your
'grandfather' class, NSView". But there is no supersuper keyword.
Is there any way to improve this?.....
- (void)keyDown:(NSEvent*)event {
NSString *s = [event charactersIgnoringModifiers] ;
unichar keyChar = 0 ;
if ([s length] == 1) {
keyChar = [s characterAtIndex:0] ;
// Our superclass NSTextView accepts tabs and backtabs as text.
// If we want _tabToNextKeyView, we re-implement the NSView
behavior
// of selecting the next or previous key view
if ((keyChar == NSTabCharacter)&& _tabToNextKeyView) {
[[self window] selectNextKeyView:self] ;
}
else if ((keyChar == NSBackTabCharacter) &&
_tabToNextKeyView) {
[[self window] selectPreviousKeyView:self] ;
}
else {
// Handle using super's (i.e. NSTextView) -
interpretKeyEvents:,
// which will typewrite the key-downed character
NSArray* events = [NSArray arrayWithObject:event] ;
[self interpretKeyEvents:events] ;
}
}
}
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