[TxMt Plugins] sendAction Question

[Kirt Fitzpatrick]

It Todd appears is right.  Which is what I was afraid of.  Now I really need
to work blind (without documentation).

kirt

On 3/17/07, Todd Ditchendorf <itod at mac.com> wrote:
>
> > Actually it's an NSResponder method,
>
> yes, but if you're trying to move the text selection caret, the impl
> you actually want to call will be in something like NSTextView.
>
> > It's worth a shot.
>
> agreed. but still... I've peeked into the OakTextView.h header file
> using class-dump[1], and I don't see moveLeft: listed there. I really
> don't think this will work.
>
> [1] http://www.codethecode.com/Projects/class-dump/
>
> Todd Ditchendorf
>
> Scandalous Software - Mac XML Developer Tools
> http://scan.dalo.us
>
>
>
> On Mar 17, 2007, at 3:51 PM, Rob Rix wrote:
>
> > Actually it's an NSResponder method, and taking a glance at
> > TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/KeyBindings.dict shows that a
> > number of NSResponder methods are implemented by TextMate.
> >
> > It's worth a shot.
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > On 17-Mar-07, at 6:46 PM, Todd Ditchendorf wrote:
> >
> >> 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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