Hello,
I'm brand new to Cocoa, I have been using RealBasic and AppleScript Studio
for a long time and have finally decided to learn Cocoa.
K, so I have created a simple little app which has a button which set the
contents of a NSTextField to a integer, and this works fine. I even
figured out how to change the color. I just can't seem to figure out how
to set text in the TextField.
Here is my code I was trying.
Thanks,
tom
- (IBAction)setTextFieldTo:(id)sender
{
// This works
//[textField setIntValue:2];
NSString *myText;
myText = @"Hello World";
[textField setString: myText];
[textField setToolTip: @"Hello Tool Tip!"];
[textField setTextColor: [NSColor greenColor]];
}
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I think it's [textField setStringValue:myText] instead of [textField
setString:myText].

Hank

Feb 5, 2007, at 1:38 PM, tjones (AT) acworld (DOT) com wrote:

Hello,
I'm brand new to Cocoa, I have been using RealBasic and AppleScript
Studio
for a long time and have finally decided to learn Cocoa.

K, so I have created a simple little app which has a button which
set the
contents of a NSTextField to a integer, and this works fine. I even
figured out how to change the color. I just can't seem to figure
out how
to set text in the TextField.

Here is my code I was trying.

Thanks,
tom
--
- (IBAction)setTextFieldTo:(id)sender
{
// This works
//[textField setIntValue:2];

NSString *myText;
myText = @"Hello World";

[textField setString: myText];
[textField setToolTip: @"Hello Tool Tip!"];
[textField setTextColor: [NSColor greenColor]];
}

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Feb 5, 2007, at 12:38 PM, tjones (AT) acworld (DOT) com wrote:

I'm brand new to Cocoa, I have been using RealBasic and AppleScript
Studio
for a long time and have finally decided to learn Cocoa.

K, so I have created a simple little app which has a button which
set the
contents of a NSTextField to a integer, and this works fine. I even
figured out how to change the color. I just can't seem to figure
out how
to set text in the TextField.

Here is my code I was trying.

Thanks,
tom
--
- (IBAction)setTextFieldTo:(id)sender
{
// This works
//[textField setIntValue:2];

NSString *myText;
myText = @"Hello World";

[textField setString: myText];
[textField setToolTip: @"Hello Tool Tip!"];
[textField setTextColor: [NSColor greenColor]];
}

As I.S. just pointed out, use setStringValue:

thing I wanted to point out though is that if you had an
NSTextView instead of NSTextField, then you would be able to use
setString: (NSTextView inherits from NSText which provides a
setString:). However, NSTextField does not inherit from NSText.

Typically, you can get nice compiler warnings about this (e.g.
'textField may not respond to setString:') My guess is that you
declared textField as an id (which is a perfectly valid thing to do),
instead of the more specific type of NSTextField*.

Ricky A. Sharp mailto:rsharp (AT) instantinteractive (DOT) com
Instant Interactive(tm)

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Thanks everyone, I had stumbled across the setIntValue in one of the Apple
Cocoa pdf's, and it was not listed in the Dev Docs for NSTextField but I
did find it in the NSCell API.

Thanks again,
tom

Mon, February 5, 2007 10:57 am, Ricky Sharp wrote:

Feb 5, 2007, at 12:38 PM, tjones (AT) acworld (DOT) com wrote:
>
>
>I'm brand new to Cocoa, I have been using RealBasic and AppleScript
>Studio
>for a long time and have finally decided to learn Cocoa.
>>
>K, so I have created a simple little app which has a button which
>set the contents of a NSTextField to a integer, and this works fine. I
>even figured out how to change the color. I just can't seem to figure out
>how to set text in the TextField.
>>
>Here is my code I was trying.
>>
>>
>Thanks,
>tom
>>
>>
>- (IBAction)setTextFieldTo:(id)sender
>{
>// This works
>//[textField setIntValue:2];
>>
>>
>NSString *myText;
>myText = @"Hello World";
>>
>[textField setString: myText];
>[textField setToolTip: @"Hello Tool Tip!"];
>[textField setTextColor: [NSColor greenColor]];
>}
>>
>
As I.S. just pointed out, use setStringValue:
--
thing I wanted to point out though is that if you had an
NSTextView instead of NSTextField, then you would be able to use
setString: (NSTextView inherits from NSText which provides a
setString:). However, NSTextField does not inherit from NSText.
--
Typically, you can get nice compiler warnings about this (e.g.
'textField may not respond to setString:') My guess is that you
declared textField as an id (which is a perfectly valid thing to do),
instead of the more specific type of NSTextField*.

Ricky A. Sharp mailto:rsharp (AT) instantinteractive (DOT) com
Instant Interactive(tm)
>
>
>

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Feb 5, 2007, at 2:15 PM, I. Savant wrote:
You should download AppKiDo by Andy Lee. It's quite handy for
browsing the documentation:

Pay attention to which version of the documentation you have
versus the version of AppKiDo you're using. An older version of
AppKiDo, for example, may not know how to properly display newer
documentation if its formatting/structure has changed.

In fact there's a bug now where it's not detecting every single
constant (like NSVariableStatusItemLength). Apple must have made
some tweak to their docs and I didn't notice since AppKiDo was still
meeting most of my (occasional) needs.

Lately I've been itching to do some work on it, so maybe I'll get out
another release some time this century. I'd like to do a major
overhaul if I can find the time, but I may have to settle for
incremental point releases. I keep hoping Apple will adopt AppKiDo's
UI and save me the trouble. But I'd be even happier if they'd
provide a (public) layer of documentation abstraction so I'm not
reduced to scraping HTML. I think there's a lot of conceptual ground
that could be broken in how we approach documentation.

I think the Cocoa docs are fantastic, a joy to use. To me they are
an integral part of the Cocoa development experience, just as the
NextStep docs were. That's why it matters so much to me to be able
to navigate the docs just the way I want.

Thanks for the nod, I.!

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