Re: Calling commitEditing text field loses focus

On Dec 21, 2011, at 8:28 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:

> This makes no sense to me. An NSController does not even have *any* =
properties, let alone a window. It's not an interface element. And =
NSObjectController only knows (publicly) about things it binds to (its =
content or selection), but what is needed is the objects that bind *to* =
it. There's no API for that. So I really fail to see how you could have =
done this without using SPI.

You=92ve got two options here:

You know where you use the controller, so you can associate one or more =
windows with your controller. (It doesn=92t have any built-in properties =
to track this association=97you=92ll have to add this.)

Or, you can just snapshot the first responder and state for every =
window, commit editing, and restore it in those windows where it has =
changed.

For my purposes, the latter performed perfectly acceptably (having =
hundreds of windows open isn=92t a typical use case), so that was the =
solution that I wrote.

Jim=