macOS Set Keyboard Focus to NSView?

[Gandolfmatt]

Hey, what's the code to set keyboard focus to an NSView?
I have a textField which deselects when the Enter key is hit, and I need a way for it to select the NSView to respond to key presses.
Any ideas?


Thanks,
-Gan

 

[Sydde]

Hey, what's the code to set keyboard focus to an NSView?
I have a textField which deselects when the Enter key is hit, and I need a way for it to select the NSView to respond to key presses.
Any ideas?


Thanks,
-Gan

Examine the documentation for NSWindow.

 

[Gandolfmatt]

I've searched without success.
Most of my code is within the NSView, even my textField code is. Now when you click enter on the textField it runs this:

[self sendMessage:[textField stringValue]];
[textField setStringValue:@""];
[textField setSelected:FALSE];

That deselects the textField but there's no setSelect command for an NSView. I've noticed that you need to click the NSView to select it, is there a way you could do that programmatically instead of having to click the NSView for it to accept key response?


-Gan

 

[kainjow]

Try something like this

[[myView window] makeFirstResponder:myView];

 

[Gandolfmatt]

I'm sure that'd work though this code throws an exception:

[textField setSelected:FALSE];

Which does deselect the textField but also ignores all code after. Any safe way to deselect a textField?


Thanks,
-Gan

 

[Gandolfmatt]

Got it:

[[[[NSApplication sharedApplication] delegate] window] selectNextKeyView: [[[NSApplication sharedApplication] delegate] window]];

This causes it to switch to the next view. If there's more than one view it could get messy.


-Gan

 

[Sydde]

I believe you can abbreviate [NSApplication sharedApplication] to NSApp (it looks a tiny bit cleaner, to me anyway).