The final piece of the problem was that the hosting custom view was directly calling -resetCursorRects, in violation of the documentation. Once I changed this to the recommended -invalidateCursorRectsForView:, everything was hunky-dory.
--Graham On 26/06/2010, at 8:46 PM, Graham Cox wrote: > > On 26/06/2010, at 6:16 PM, Ken Thomases wrote: > >> On Jun 26, 2010, at 2:27 AM, Graham Cox wrote: >> >>> What is the correct way to tear down or remove the field editor when >>> editing is complete? >> >> The field editor is intimately connected to the window, so it's often the >> window's responsibility to manage it. See the discussion of the -[NSWindow >> endEditingFor:] method. > > > Thanks Ken. > > I did investigate using that method with no result for a while, but I think I > found (most) of the problem. > > Seems there are two ways to ask a cell to start editing: -selectWithFrame:... > and -editWithFrame:... The custom view (which I didn't originally write but > found on the 'net - however there's almost nothing left of the original code > having gradually bent it to my will) was calling BOTH of these methods. This > results in TWO views getting inserted into the view stack, one exactly on top > of the other. On -endEditing:, only one was correctly getting removed. The > other became orphaned and continued to draw its background and set the cursor. > > Having set it now so that only one of these methods is called, the tear-down > is now nearly there, just leaving a cursor rect remaining which gets cleared > on a selection change. I'm now looking into fixing that. > > So for the record, if you're programming a view that uses a cell, don't call > both editing methods - just use one or the other. _______________________________________________ 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
