Question

Please note it is not a NSComboBox, but a NSComboBoxCell.

Also, note I’m on Leopard (OSX 10.5).

So far I’ve been able only to invoke a method when another item is selected in the NSComboBoxCell items menu, but not when the text is edited, by manually typing it.

thanks

Answer 1

There is the NSControlTextDidChangeNotification send by concrete NSControl subclasses. You can subscribe to that. It might be easier and cleaner to implement the corresponding notification method in the delegate.

To do that, you connect the delegate outlet of the NSComboBox to some object in the XIB file. Then you override - (void)controlTextDidChange:(NSNotification *)obj; there. This notification exists since 10.0, I didn’t test on 10.5, though.