Re: ABPeoplePickerView: setting focus on the search field

FROM : Jonathon Mah
DATE : Wed Apr 20 01:19:46 2005

On 20 Apr 2005, at 07:11, John Fox wrote:

> I've been using ABPeoplePickerView in a panel, and I'm trying to 
> figure out how to always have the cursor be active in the the search 
> field (i.e. that the search field receives the focus). This is the way 
> the people picker behaves in iChat. In my app however, after a user 
> selects a record and the panel is closed, the next time it's opened 
> the focus is no longer on the search field, but on the previously 
> selected record. The only way to force the cursor into the search 
> field is to use the tab key which is "non-obvious" to borrow a phrase. 
> I've tried called deselectAll: and that doesn't have any effect. 
> Further, there does not seem to be any public outlet for the search 
> field in this view. Is there some trick, hidden or otherwise, that I'm 
> missing


Doing a quick grep on the symbols brings up the method 
-[ABPeoplePickerView _searchField], so (judging by the method name) you 
should be able to use that to get a reference to the search field and 
focus it. Obviously this is a private method, usual warnings, etc.

In case you're interested in how I found that, I used the command:
nm 
/System/Library/Frameworks/AddressBook.framework/Versions/Current/
AddressBook | grep search


Hope this helps,


Jonathon Mah
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