[TxMt Plugins] sendAction Question

[Todd Ditchendorf]

oh... and btw, I don't think the line below is going to work  
anyhow... first of all, I think I gave you some bumb advice... I'd  
never heard of moveLeft: before... I just looked it up, and it looks  
like it's something that an NSTextView might implement, not an NSWindow.

More importantly, Allan has developed his own alternative to  
NSTextView in TM, called OakTextView, and I would not be surprised if  
it doesn't implement that method anyhow, so this might be a dead end.

Todd Ditchendorf

Scandalous Software - Mac XML Developer Tools
http://scan.dalo.us



On Mar 17, 2007, at 3:39 PM, Todd Ditchendorf wrote:

> Kirt, I've done quite a bit of communication from a tm plugin to  
> the TM front most window[1][2][3]... I think you should probably  
> try something like this:
>
> [[[NSApplication sharedApplication] mainWindow] moveLeft:self]
>
>
> Note that +[NSApplication sharedApplication] returns an  
> NSApplication instance, not a window. An NSApplication handles much  
> of the application's lifecycle. A window is represented by  
> NSWindow. The frontmost TM editing window can always be fetched by  
> calling -[NSApplication mainWindow] on the TM application instance  
> from your plugin, as shown above
>
> If I were Allan, I would probably admonish you not to do anything  
> too crazy to the frontmost TM window from your plugin, as it might  
> surprise users. But then again, as I mentioned, I've probably done  
> more peeking under TM's skirt with my plugins than anyone else  
> has...  So far Allan hasn't complained ;-]
>
>
> [1] http://ditchnet.ort/texmlmate
> [2] http://ditchnet.ort/texslmate
> [3] http://ditchnet.ort/blogmate
>
>
> Todd Ditchendorf
>
> Scandalous Software - Mac XML Developer Tools
> http://scan.dalo.us
>
>
>
> On Mar 17, 2007, at 2:52 PM, Kirt Fitzpatrick wrote:
>
>> I am trying to call the moveLeft method on the editor window and I  
>> don't seem to be having any luck.  I am a bit of a n00b to  
>> Objective C so I assume that I must be missing something.  This is  
>> what I came up with.  Am I doing something wrong?
>>
>> SEL methodSelector = sel_registerName( "moveLeft" );
>> [[NSApplication sharedApplication] sendAction:methodSelector  
>> to:nil from:self];
>>
>> kirt
>>
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