Re: ABPeoplePickerView: setting focus on the search field: (Solved: though inelegantly)

FROM : John Fox
DATE : Wed Apr 20 01:23:12 2005

Hi Carl:

Thanks for getting back to me.

In iChat, when you go to add a new buddy to your buddy list, what 
you're looking at is a panel with an ABPeoplePickerView This is an 
Apple provided class which is available from an IB palette. While it's 
a very useful palette, there sure seem to be some bugs in this class 
that have been discussed in this list.

At any rate, by poking around a little more, and looking at 
ABPeoplePickerViews's subviews, I found that one of them is an 
NSTextField subclass called ABSearchField. So, I solved my problem with 
brute force by calling selectText: on that object ach time before 
loading my panel. I would prefer not to have to do this, but for now it 
gets me the behavior I need.

John

On Apr 19, 2005, at 4:12 PM, Carl Gieringer wrote:

> John,
>
> What is the "people picker"?  Do you mean the "Add a Buddy" sheet?
>
> Maybe you should subclass NSPanel and override makeKeyAndOrderFront 
> and orderFront and any related methods, and then within those methods 
> call makeFirstResponder: (NSWindow) or accepts/becomeFirstResponder 
> (NSResponder)  for your search field.  Then call super's 
> implementation.
>
> On Apr 19, 2005, at 13:41, John Fox wrote:
>

>> Hello:
>>
>> 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
>>
>> Any help greatly appreciated.
>>
>> John
>>
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