Re: When is an NSTextField editor created?

[Adam R. Maxwell]

On Jul 26, 2009, at 9:05 PM, Jean-Nicolas Jolivet wrote:

I'm working on an NSTextField subclass and I'm trying to find out when an NSTextField's editor (i.e. its "currentEditor") is created so I can set its

caret color using the following:[[self currentEditor]
setInsertionPointColor:];


color when the user starts typing)...

Problem is, each notification/event I try to override is either too soon (i.e. currentEditor is still null) or too late (i.e. the cursor changes

You should be able to use the NSWindow delegate method willReturnFieldEditor:toObject: to return a customized field editor. I'd also think about subclassing NSTextFieldCell and overriding setUpFieldEditorAttributes:, but I've never tried to change the insertion point color.

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