Re: Receiving mouseDown event in NSTextView subclass outside of the text container

FROM : Jeff Johnson
DATE : Tue Nov 06 19:09:17 2007

Martin,

If memory serves, I once encountered a similar problem where I 
subclassed the NSTextView's enclosing NSScrollView too.

-Jeff


On Nov 6, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Martin Ott wrote:

> In my subclass of NSTextView I have overridden mouseDown. The text 
> container associated with the text view doesn't fill the whole text 
> view. My mouseDown method gets only called when I click in the area 
> of the text container. If I hit the area outside of the text 
> container but still in the text view my mouseDown method doesn't 
> get invoked.
>
> Is there a way to receive mouseDown events outside the text 
> container? Actually I want handle the events outside the container 
> myself and call super for handling the events occuring in the 
> container.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin