focus a NSTextField

Question

I have a NSTextField and I want to set its content if I klick on a button and than set the cursor on this textfield at the end of the text so if someone klicks the button he

Answer 1

Some time ago I did similar task. My solution was write down small category method for partial text selection for NSTextField. This method does job like original selectText: does (with setting focus to control).

@implementation NSTextField( SelExt )

-(void)selectTextRange:(NSRange)range
{
   NSText *textEditor = [self.window fieldEditor:YES forObject:self];
   if( textEditor ){
      id cell = [self selectedCell];
      [cell selectWithFrame:[self bounds] inView:self 
            editor:textEditor delegate:self
            start:range.location length:range.length];
   }
}

@end

with this method you may place text selection where you want and start typing right after that.