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Select all text in a NSTextField using Swift

How can I programatically select all the text in a NSTextField using Swift?

For UITextField theres a method like

textField.selectedTextRange = textField.textRangeFromPosition(...)
Solution

  • Try this in a playground:

    import XCPlayground
import AppKit

let view = NSView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 300, height: 300))

XCPShowView("view", view)

let txtf = NSTextField(frame: CGRect(x: 50, y: 50, width: 200, height: 50))

view.addSubview(txtf)

txtf.stringValue = "falling asleep at the keyboard..."

txtf.selectText(nil) // Ends editing and selects the entire contents of the text field

var txt = txtf.currentEditor() // returns an NSText

txt.selectedRange // --> (0,33)

    Command-click on selectedRange, then on NSText (its return type), which will jump you to its Swiftened header where you can check out its rich functionality...