HAHAHa it was simpler than I thought. ! I just need to place another NSTokenField wit all the tokens strings coma-separated and then APi allows me to Drag and Drop from one to another..!!!!
Why I didn't try that before? Gustavo. On May 11, 2010, at 10:39 AM, Gustavo Pizano wrote: > Hello all, once again. > > Im trying to reproduce something similar to the name formatting of Aperture > when importing images. So the idea is to allow the user to to set a format by > dragging "tokens" into a NSTokenField, to later apply the format into when > required. > > So these are my theories on how to approach the beast: > > 1. Create a Custom Object which has ivars, NSImage image, and a NSString for > the formatValue, so i.e I can have an object with a format value @"YYYY", and > the image an image with shows Year Number. and so on for month, day and > counter. > > 2. Set the images in the view bellow the NSTokenField. > > 3. Implement D-n-D, for these I guessI will have to subclass NSTokenField to > be able to implement there the necessarily dropping methods. > > 3. When dropping read the pasteboard and get the CustomObject's formatValue > string and somehow append that string to what the NSTokenField (self in this > case) has. > > 4. In the NSTokenField delegate implement: > tokenField:representedObjectForEditingString:, > tokenField:representedObjectForEditingString:, so I can display the string in > the encapsulated style, (the blue rounded background). > > I have some doubts in 3 and 4, in 3 because I saw in the > NSTokenFieldCellDelegate a method called: > > • – tokenFieldCell:readFromPasteboard: > • – tokenFieldCell:writeRepresentedObjects:to > So I dunno how this may help me for the Drag and Drop. > > > and on 4th, because I dunno if the first delegate method will ever be called > due that Im not typing directly but appending something in the TextField. > > > Anything else I shall have in mind to fully implement this req. ? > > > Thanks in advance > > Gustavo > _______________________________________________ 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
