Re: "intelligent" flexible popup

2009-07-20 Thread Quincey Morris
On Jul 20, 2009, at 22:16, Daniel Child wrote: I seem to have fallen into the pitfall you described below. I can get the table view to display values in a combo box from a data source, which takes those values from an array in the model. I also have autocomplete working. But I can't seem

Re: "intelligent" flexible popup

2009-07-20 Thread Daniel Child
I seem to have fallen into the pitfall you described below. I can get the table view to display values in a combo box from a data source, which takes those values from an array in the model. I also have autocomplete working. But I can't seem to get the values I choose to "stick" (remain d

Re: "intelligent" flexible popup

2009-07-19 Thread Gregory Weston
Daniel Child wrote: As a follow-up to the previous question on popups in a table, I am wondering what APIs you can use to implement the kind of "intelligent" popups one finds, for example, when filling out the State field in forms needing an address. You start typing "Ma" and Maine or Maryland c

Re: "intelligent" flexible popup

2009-07-19 Thread Quincey Morris
On Jul 19, 2009, at 17:05, I. Savant wrote: On Jul 19, 2009, at 7:58 PM, Quincey Morris wrote: ... and you'd *still* have to prevent the table view from treating [NSComboBoxCell] like a text field. In what way? Are you referring to the fact that a menu can represent an object, whereas

Re: "intelligent" flexible popup

2009-07-19 Thread I. Savant
On Jul 19, 2009, at 7:58 PM, Quincey Morris wrote: ... and you'd *still* have to prevent the table view from treating [NSComboBoxCell] like a text field. In what way? Are you referring to the fact that a menu can represent an object, whereas a combo box is just a (possibly-pre-baked-ch

Re: "intelligent" flexible popup

2009-07-19 Thread Quincey Morris
On Jul 19, 2009, at 16:43, Daniel Child wrote: As a follow-up to the previous question on popups in a table, I am wondering what APIs you can use to implement the kind of "intelligent" popups one finds, for example, when filling out the State field in forms needing an address. You start typ

Re: "intelligent" flexible popup

2009-07-19 Thread I. Savant
On Jul 19, 2009, at 7:43 PM, Daniel Child wrote: As a follow-up to the previous question on popups in a table, I am wondering what APIs you can use to implement the kind of "intelligent" popups one finds, for example, when filling out the State field in forms needing an address. You start t

"intelligent" flexible popup

2009-07-19 Thread Daniel Child
As a follow-up to the previous question on popups in a table, I am wondering what APIs you can use to implement the kind of "intelligent" popups one finds, for example, when filling out the State field in forms needing an address. You start typing "Ma" and Maine or Maryland come up. But you