That's what I get for assuming. :) I figured text fields were for editing text, and text views were for displaying it. Needless to say, I was completely and profoundly wrong! This text view and related pieces are doing precisely what I wanted; spellcheck, substitutions, no selecting when the app inserts text, etc. I can even support tab and enter for moving/submitting by making my view controller the delegate!
My only remaining wonder is about setting the accessibilityHelp property, which is giving me the same error it always has: self is immutable. This isn't a show-stopper, but it would be really nice to be able to change this according to different user actions. > On Sep 15, 2015, at 13:20, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On Sep 15, 2015, at 9:11 AM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> * When I call myField.stringValue="some text", that string ("some text") >> appears as expected, but it's highlighted. That means that, when the user >> starts typing, it disappears, defeating the purpose of the app putting it >> there for the user in the first place. > > That’s the standard behavior for text fields. It lets the user tab through a > dialog box and either accept the default value or quickly type in a new one. > >> * My field currently doesn't allow spellchecking or auto-correct, but I want >> it to. I don't see that option anywhere in the inspectors, for the field or >> its child cell. > > This is probably a side effect of the fact that all text fields (and text > cells in general) in the window share the same NSTextView, called the “field > editor”. So by default they’re using the characteristics of that view. > > You can override either of those behaviors, but it sounds like you may want > to use an NSTextView instead of an NSTextField in your UI, since its behavior > isn’t typical and you want to enable extra features. > > —Jens > -- Have a great day, Alex Hall [email protected] _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) 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 [email protected]
