macOS How to remove cursor from text field on click of button?

[Monaj]

Hi all,

I am trying to do a simple task:

I have an editable text field, two buttons (titles: make editable/ make un-editable) over a window. Idea is: when user clicks "make editable" button, text field should become editable and when he/she clicks "make un-editable", it should become un-editable.

In action of "make un-editable" I am doing this:

[myTextField setSelectable:NO];
[myTextField setEditable:NO];

and in action of "make editable" I am doing this:

[myTextField setSelectable:YES];
[myTextField setEditable:YES];

Problem is:
It works fine when myTextField does not have cursor within it or it has cursor but user does not type anything in it and clicks - "make un-editable", then myTextField becomes un-editable but when it has cursor and user clicks "make un-editable" after typing something within it he/she can still edit myTextField.

For its solution I tried to remove cursor from myTextField as soon as user clicks "make un-editable" button, by adding these lines before selectable and editable statements:

1.

[someOtherTextField selectText:self];

2.

[[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] performSelector:@selector(selectText:) someOtherTextField argument:self order:9999 modes:[NSArray arrayWithObject:NSDefaultRunLoopMode]];

3.

[someOtherTextField becomeFirstResponder];

but none is working for me

Can anyone suggest some solution for it?

Thanks,

Monaj

 

[Monaj]

solution found

I used this and solved my problem

[[myTextField window] makeFirstResponder: nil]

 

[jared_kipe]

Or probably [myTextField resignFirstResponder]