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Charles G. Bennett writes
| emurphy@cs.uno.edu (Edward Murphy) writes:
| > [...] i'm putting together a app with two objects. a "form" and a  
| > "scrollview". i'd like to be able to tab from the last formcell to the  
| > scrollview's text window.  [...]
| >
| > incidently, when i set the nexttext of the form to be the scrollview it  
| > crashes with the message...
| >
| > error: ScrollView does not recognize selector -selectText:
| 
| set the forms target to the scrollviews docView..
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| Chuck Bennett, BenaTong Consulting
| cgb@count0.cmhnet.org

Chuck's idea should work if executed programmatically (I haven't verified it,  
though), perhaps within -appDidInit you could make this connection with a call  
to -setTarget (I couldn't make the connection to the docView within IB).

However, if you would like a solution which should work from within IB, try  
this:

Write a category of ScrollView which implements the -selectText: method.   
Within this method you can find the appropriate docView and make it the  
firstResponder, after placing the cursor where you would like it to be if it  
isn't already there.

This approach should work no matter how many different Form/ScrollView pairs  
you have.  Just hook any two of them up with IB by double-clicking the nextText  
outlet.  No need to manually set the target within your code.

I haven't verified this for ScrollViews, but I've done the exact same thing  
with NXBrowsers to allow tabbing into and out of a browser from other Forms in  
a panel.
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