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ml[Newbie question] Subclassing NSButton
FROM : JECKER Frédéric
DATE : Sun Aug 06 20:52:11 2006

Hi all,

I create a simple window with one button and one NSTextField
The idea is to display contextual text when the button is hovered by the mouse.

To do this I subclassed the NSButton class and created the
HoverNSButton class (code attached) which uses the following code to
catch the mouse events :
- (void)viewDidMoveToWindow{
   [self addTrackingRect:[self visibleRect] owner:self userData:nil
assumeInside:NO];
}

- (void) mouseEntered:(NSEvent *)theEvent{
   NSLog(@"Mouse Entered");
}

- (void) mouseExited:(NSEvent *)theEvent{
   NSLog(@"Mouse Exited");
}

This works well, but I tried to turn this a little more dynamic by
adding the following method to my HoverNSButton class:
- (void) setContext:(NSString*)content container:(NSTextField*)field{
   NSLog(@"Setting Context");
   NSLog(content);
   text=content;
   NSLog(text);
   textfield=field;
}

The goal of this method is to be called by the window controller to
set the text for each HoverNSButton.
I call this method for each button in my controller but this don't work.
I tried to debug the whole thing but the debugger doesn't enter the
setContext method.

Any ideas???

Thanks a lot

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ml[Newbie question] Subclassing NSButton JECKER Frédéric Aug 6, 20:52
mlRe: [Newbie question] Subclassing NSButton Tommy Nordgren Aug 6, 21:24
mlRe: [Newbie question] Subclassing NSButton Matt Neuburg Aug 7, 00:23
mlRe: [Newbie question] Subclassing NSButton JECKER Frédéric Aug 7, 08:17
mlRe: [Newbie question] Subclassing NSButton Matt Neuburg Aug 7, 17:39