In Apple Cocoa programing, the first responder is the first object in a chain of NSResponder subclasses to be called upon receiving an even such as keypress, mouseclick, etc.
Questions tagged [first-responder]
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Create custom input for UITextField in Swift
I'm programming a iOS app in Swift language and all I have to do is create a custom input for a textfield.
I created an additional View Controller with two buttons and what I want is this view controller (instead of the keyboard) to pop-up when I…

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UIScrollView inside UIScrollView – ignore scroll view touches when in bounds of text view?
I have one UIScrollView inside another UIScrollView, both scrolling vertically. I’m having an issue where when I try to scroll the inner scroll view, the touches are also picked up just afterwards by the outer scroll view. I need touches in the…

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iOS: Stop ScrollView from making room when selecting textfield at top
I've scoured through several questions asking about how to prevent scrolling when selecting a first responder however nothing I find seems to work for this issue.
I have a UITextField above my table view at the very top of my page. When the user…

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Subview will not become first responder
In my view controller I have initialized a new UIView Subclass called HypnosisView and added it to the root view of the ViewController. And in viewDidLoad I set the view to become the first responder like so:
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super…

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Keyboard/Space Bar misbehavior for UITextField with custom character input
This is really bizarre and I've already wasted almost an entire day trying to figure out this ridiculous little problem... ahhh, I need some help from any who are willing to dig into this :(
So I've got a UITextField, in which I need to limit the…

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Change UITextField background when editing begins for multiple fields
So I found this thread a while ago:
Change UITextField background when editing begins
The top answer is a fantastic resource for changing the background image of a textField when the user edits it. However, my issue is, how can you enable this with…

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NSTextView keyDown Event
I want trigger the keyDown Event with every Key action. Therefore I have created a subclass of NSView.
@interface CodrTextView : NSView {
NSTextField *lineNumberSpace;
NSTextView *mainTextView;
}
- (id) initWithTextView:(NSTextView…

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Handling messages to the first responder in a view controller
I must be missing something simple, but I can't see it. First, the setup:
DATreeView, a subclass of NSView
DATreeViewController, a subclass of NSViewController
MainMenu.xib has an instance of DATreeViewController, which is configured to load a…

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UITextField that is always first responder
I have a ViewController that is just a textfield, a next button, and a back button. I want the text field to always be editable while having the keyboard always present. I also want to customize the keyboard to be my own, but that will come once I…

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iOS dismiss keyboard but keep editing
I have a UITextView that is being edited and I want to add a custom keyboard... is there any way to dismiss the keyboard but leave the textView in edit mode so the blue cursor keeps flashing? Or better yet is there any way to put a view ontop of the…

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Select or mark text in UITextView without it becoming first responder
Is this even possible?
I want to select/mark text without text view becoming first responder. I have search implemented in UIPopoverController and then when it's dismissed UIToolBar with Next and Previous button is showed which allows me to select…

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What determines the list of action for first Responder?
If I click firstResponder and see all the outlet I saw this pics:
I recognize the name as some of the name of my selectors.
I noticed that
The fact that selector is public or not doesn't seem to matter to get into the list
I am not sure if the…

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UITextField - Action on resignFirstResponder -- possible?
I have created a form that has a number of text fields that save to NSStrings that are then used deeper in the app.
Currently, if you hit the return key (done) on the GUI keyboard, the keyboard is dismissed, and the data in the text field is saved…

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NSTextView won't become first responder
Here's the layout of my little test app:
AppDelegate owns WindowController.
WindowController owns CustomTextContainerView.
CustomTextContainerView owns an NSScrollView which embeds MyCustomTextView (an NSTextView subclass).
The xibs for both the…

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Uimenucontroller controller not responding to touch
I have a uimenucontroller that I am using on a uiwebview. The menu controller works fine on simple text websites however on larger websites i.e.…

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