Creating a NSTextField

• Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho Creating a NSTextField Feb 26 2008, 17:13
  Hello,
  
  I am building Cocoa apps without the interface builder. Creating a
  NSWindow instance is really easy, and I can do:
  
      NSWindow* MainWindow = [[NSWindow alloc] initWithContentRect: MainWindowRect
        styleMask: NSTitledWindowMask | NSClosableWindowMask |
  NSMiniaturizableWindowMask | NSResizableWindowMask
          backing: NSBackingStoreBuffered
            defer: NO];
  
  But there is no initialization method for a NSTextField. How can I
  create a NSTextField? Just alloc?
  
  thanks,
  --
  Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
• Ken Worley Re: Creating a NSTextField Feb 26 2008, 18:21
  On Feb 26, 2008, at 9:13 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
  
  

  > But there is no initialization method for a NSTextField. How can I
  > create a NSTextField? Just alloc?
  

  
  Generally more like:
  
  [[NSTextField alloc] initWithFrame:someRect];
  
  Ken
  
  --
  Ken Worley
  Software Engineer, Tiberius, Inc.
• Jerry Krinock Re: Creating a NSTextField Feb 26 2008, 18:24
  On 2008 Feb, 26, at 8:13, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
  
  

  > But there is no initialization method for a NSTextField. How can I
  > create a NSTextField? Just alloc?
  

  
  NSTextField is a subclass of NSControl.  Use [[NSTextView alloc] -
  initWithFrame:].
  
  Then use -addSubview: on your window's -contentView.  And since your
  NSTextView is not instantiated in Interface Builder, keep it in an
  instance variable or something.
• Gorazd Krosl Re: Creating a NSTextField Feb 26 2008, 19:56
  >> But there is no initialization method for a
  >> NSTextField. How can I
  >> create a NSTextField? Just alloc?
  > NSTextField is a subclass of NSControl. Use
  > [[NSTextView >alloc] - initWithFrame:]. Then use
  > -addSubview: on your window's -contentView. And
  

  since
  

  > your NSTextView is not instantiated in Interface
  > Builder, keep it in an instance variable or
  

  something.
  
  And don't forget to -release it after you add it to
  superview, since the latter retains it.
  
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