[Brass]

NSTextField does not appear to allow drag & drop onto it by default. What's the best way to enable this? I imagine some fiddling with the window's field editor would be required? Why don't Apple have this enabled by default? I would have thought it was a natural candidate.

[techtrucker]

Ran into this myself a while back. I "cheated" and used an NSTextView, if you get rid of the scroll bar you can make it the same height as a text field. I know it's not the right solution but it's how I got around it...

Steve W

[Wevah]

You could just subclass NSTextField and implement the drag and drop routines yourself...

[Brass]

Originally posted by Wevah:
You could just subclass NSTextField and implement the drag and drop routines yourself...

It's not that simple... you'd have to implement it for the NSWindow's field editor, not for the field itself.

Using an NSTextView sounds a lot simpler (ie, no additional code required at all). Actually, are there any drawbacks at all to replacing an NSTextField with an NSTextView?

[techtrucker]

I didn't experience any drawbacks really...The text view does look a little different from a text field (the frame), and you can't use the same functions for getting or setting the contents of text views as you do for text fields. If that doesn't bother you I say give it a try.

Steve W

[Brass]

Originally posted by techtrucker:
I didn't experience any drawbacks really...The text view does look a little different from a text field (the frame), and you can't use the same functions for getting or setting the contents of text views as you do for text fields. If that doesn't bother you I say give it a try.

Steve W

But there are functional equivalents, right? Eg, instead of "setStringValue", you use "setString". For some of the other "set..." methods, you may have to do some conversion to string first, but most such objects (eg, NSNumbers) have that built in anyway.

[techtrucker]

In my particular case I was only working with strings, so it was pretty easy. Instead of getting the string value with "stringValue" you just use "string" etc. But you're right, for numeric values you have to work the conversion out yourself.

Steve W

[Wevah]

Oh, are you talking about dragging and dropping into a specific position in the text field? I didn't catch that before. I thought it was just something like dragging a file onto a field and having the field filled with the filename. Nevermind, then.