[Spiffster]

In my NSView subclass I want to be able to read events to the keyboard (up/down arrows espically). My first problem is getting the event to my subclass in the first place. I have -acceptsFirstResponder returning YES, but whenever i press a key when my app is lanuched, all I get is a beep. How do I channel keyboard events to my subclass and how do I exctract the key pressed from the event?

BTW, I'm trying to write pong by myself.

[Chuckit]

Are you sure that the view is actually your first responder? Sometimes that connection isn't made properly, for whatever reason.

[Spiffster]

As far as I know it is. What other ways are there to making the view first responder.

[type_r503]

you need to subclass the window the view is in...

[Spiffster]

explaination? please?

[type_r503]

...You need the overload the function:

Code:
- (BOOL)canBecomeKeyWindow
{
    return YES;
}

as such.

[Rickster]

Um, only if the window can't become key for some reason (e.g. it's a utility panel). If it's just a normal window, you only need to make your view the first responder. There are many ways to do this, but if you want it to automatically be first responder when the window opens, the easy way to do that is to connect it to the window's initialFirstResponder outlet in IB.

[lfrog2]

In you view subclass, do you have the following methods returning YES?

- (BOOL)acceptsFirstResponder
- (BOOL)resignFirstResponder
- (BOOL)becomeFirstResponder

and have you implemented the (void)keyDonwNSEvent *)event method?

Also, have in IB, have you connected the View to the initialFirstResponder outlet for the window? Oops, see Rickster's post just above.

[Spiffster]

I fixed it.

Grrrrr, -acceptsFirstResponder NOT acceptFirstResponder.

[lfrog2]

Originally posted by Spiffster:
I fixed it.

Grrrrr, -acceptsFirstResponder NOT acceptFirstResponder.

Looks like the type of problems I normally have

[iJed]

I'm also having problems with keyboard events in an NSView. What I'm doing is running a full screen NSMovie view that I've created in an NSWindow manually. Could someone explain to me how to do this or link me to example code that does this? Please explain it simply as my knowledge of Cocoa and Obj-C is still far from good. [I come from a C and Java background]