Re: NSComboBox delegate

[Andreas Höschler]

Hi Quentin,

> For these ones, it is the expected behavior I think.
>
> textDidChange: or textDidEndEditing: are delegate methods specific to NSText/NSTextView, but not part of NSControl.
> NSTextField is in fact NSComboBox superclass and NSControl is NSTextField superclass.
>
> At first sight, it may seem that NSTextField sends such textDidChange: method to its delegate because it implements this method. In fact NSTextField is the field editor delegate, that's why it implements these NSTextView delegate methods.
>
> Here are NSTextView notifications :
> - textShouldBeginEditing:
> - textDidBeginEditing:
> - textDidChange:
> - textShouldEndEditing:
> - textDidEndEditing:
>
> They are received by NSTextField/NSComboBox, but propagated to their own delegate in form of NSControl notifications.
>
> So you have to rely on NSControl notifications which are :
> - control:textShouldBeginEditing:
> - control:textShouldEndEditing:
> - controlTextDidBeginEditing:
> - controlTextDidChange:
> - controlTextDidEndEditing:
>
> I hope I haven't made wrong statements :-)
> Let me know whether it works better this way or not.

Yes, it worked with these methods. I was simply too tired to still know what I did. A very interesting observation, while figuring this out was that I found two issues that worked in GNUstep (according to the documentation how I understand it) but did not in MacOSX. This is a very new experience for me. Usually it's the other way around. :-)

E.g. I do 

[newVehicleButton setRefusesFirstResponder:NO];
[newDeliveryButton setRefusesFirstResponder:NO];

in order to be able to tab from a textfield to a button so that I can trigger its action with the keyboard (no mouse action required). Whatever I did I was not able to get that working on MacOSX. Moreover when tabbing out of the combo box the method 

- (BOOL)control:(NSControl *)control textShouldEndEditing:(NSText *)fieldEditor

on the delegate is not called on MacOSX, but it is called (like it should be) on GNUstep! 

Yes!!! :-)

Regards,

Andreas