Re: NSTextField

[David Ayers]

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2002 Jun 28 - 14:18
Stefan Böhringer <stefan.boehringer+usenet@uni-bochum.de> 
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>To compare implementations you should better look at MacOSX rather than
>Openstep since Openstep makes use of a special display postscript
>operator called highlight (IIRC).

I would love to, but I don't have an OS X available (yet). :-( (But Docs I 
quoted are from OS X so I expdect the behavoir to be same in that regard.)

> This is quite of a hack since it
>replaces pixels in the framebuffer of one color with another one (say
>replace white pixels with gray ones). This is a implementation running
>quickly but not well portable.

Sorry couldn't follow you there. I still missing some background knowledge 
here. (What is IIRC ?)

>Why is there both, a selectText: and a mouseDown: method sent? From a
>glance I cannot reproduce your described behaviour (say in GWorkspace).

This is because the current implementation if NSTextField -becomeFirstResponder 
doesn't send itself selectText: yet as it should (and probably will soon, once 
all this is sorted out.)

Cheers,
Dave