Re: Warning users when editing multiple items

2013-02-06 Thread Graham Cox
On 07/02/2013, at 2:19 PM, Patrick Cusack wrote: > It's sort of a misnomer as the control only applies changes to my multiple > items if I type anything and tab from the control. I don't have to press > return. Weird. It's not weird. Consider what would happen if it didn't do that. You wo

Re: Warning users when editing multiple items

2013-02-06 Thread Patrick Cusack
This is a very good illustration of why someone would want such a feature. In my case, as I entered the text field of a control, I was clearing the contents of the field thus clearing the value in the items that were selected. This is not desired behavior, nor is it good application behavior. Yo

Re: Warning users when editing multiple items

2013-02-06 Thread Flavio Donadio
Graham and Patrick, iTunes does that on commit. If I try to, let's say, add/change/delete the cover image for several tracks, I'm reminded that I'm doing it for multiple items and have a chance to cancel. Also, when you select multiple items and "get info", the fields with different data (tra

Re: Warning users when editing multiple items

2013-02-06 Thread Patrick Cusack
I fixed the problem. My biggest concern was that I forgot that I could enter a control and not have it inadvertently change all of the multiply selected items. I saw this behavior before. Anyway, when I bind a control to an NSArrayController, I must set the control's action to "Sent on Enter onl

Re: Warning users when editing multiple items

2013-02-05 Thread Patrick Cusack
Ok, that's correct. I can see NSMultipleValues in some of my detail views. In a couple of other cases it is working, but not in one particular case. Its default behaviour correct? I knew that all my monkeying was indicative that I was doing something wrong. On Feb 5, 2013, at 8:01 PM, Graham C

Re: Warning users when editing multiple items

2013-02-05 Thread Graham Cox
On 06/02/2013, at 2:08 PM, livinginlosange...@mac.com wrote: > Now users can edit an item 2 ways. They can tab into the control (in this > case an NSTextField or an NSComboBox) or mouseDown: into the control. I want > to basically interpose both ways of accessing a control. The minute they try