On 17 Jan 2010, at 04:56, Brad Stone wrote: > I tried that (textDidBeginEditing) but it fires only after the user hits a > key to begin typing, not when they first enter the field (i.e. the action > that makes the focus ring show up). I want to be notified as soon as the > user clicks in the field to get the cursor in there. I was able to capture > the mouseDown event in the field but only in a subclass which is causing me > problems elsewhere. > If subclassing is out (for whatever) and your OS X target is 10.6 then you could try observing NSWindow firstResponder. Subclassing is the way to go though IMHO.
Regards Jonathan Mitchell Developer http://www.mugginsoft.com > On Jan 16, 2010, at 3:08 PM, Matthew Lindfield Seager wrote: > >> On Sunday, January 17, 2010, Brad Stone <cocoa-...@softraph.com> wrote: >>> The best I can do for the NSTextField is bind an action and in, IB, in the >>> TextFieldAttributes set "Action" to "Sent on End Editing" which sends the >>> action after the first character is type. I want the action sent as soon >>> as the field gains focus. >> >> Googling "nstextfield begin editing notification" without the quotes >> takes one straight to the fine manual. See textDidBeginEditing in >> particular. >> >> Hope that is what you are after. >> >> Regards, >> Matt > > _______________________________________________ > > 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: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/jonathan%40mugginsoft.com > > This email sent to jonat...@mugginsoft.com _______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com