NB: CurrencyConverter tutorial

[matthew schouppe]

I've entered the Currency Converter tutorial and the only issue that I
have with the tutorial is that when I hit enter, my perception is that
the focus should be moved to the 'amount in dollars" NSTextField.
This is not happening. The only time that the focus changes is when I
actually click on the convert button. Has anyone gone through the
tutorial and had the same results? Does the selectText method of the
NSTextField actually change the focus to that field or is there
another method that should be used? Again, the method seems to work
if I click on the button, but not when I hot enter. I'm confused.
thanks.

[Eric Pepke]

[email]mschoup@excite.com[/email] (matthew schouppe) wrote in message news:<be11921e.0309161911.45df35fc@posting.google. com>...

> I've entered the Currency Converter tutorial and the only issue that I
> have with the tutorial is that when I hit enter, my perception is that
> the focus should be moved to the 'amount in dollars" NSTextField.
> This is not happening.

That's just the way it works. The Tab key moves from field to field,
but the Enter key does not. Switching based on the Enter key is not
done by default. I guess this is because some UI's might want to
have Enter switch focus, while others may want it to press a button.

[Simon Slavin]

In article <ef37f531.0309171452.5fb3de27@posting.google.com >,
[email]epepke@acm.org[/email] (Eric Pepke) wrote:

>mschoup@excite.com (matthew schouppe) wrote in message
>news:<be11921e.0309161911.45df35fc@posting.google .com>...

>> I've entered the Currency Converter tutorial and the only issue that I
>> have with the tutorial is that when I hit enter, my perception is that
>> the focus should be moved to the 'amount in dollars" NSTextField.
>> This is not happening.

>
>That's just the way it works. The Tab key moves from field to field,
>but the Enter key does not. Switching based on the Enter key is not
>done by default. I guess this is because some UI's might want to
>have Enter switch focus, while others may want it to press a button.

Enter shouldn't ever switch focus. It's just used for entering.
The 'tab' key is the right key to switch focus, and it does an
implied 'enter' if and only if you changed the contents of the
field while you were in it.