Faking OS X text field behaviour (was: Good books on Cocoa dev?)

[Ian Wood]

On 4 Mar 2010, at 12:42, Peter Brigham MD wrote:

> Is this one of those "why not just do it, looks simple" things that  
> runs into the apparently huge complexity of the field object? Which  
> I seem to recall Scott Raney describing as the "monster" it terms of  
> complexity.

That could well be.

> Meanwhile, Firefox and other browsers use backgroundcolor to  
> identify found text, so that technique is not foreign to  most  
> users, though it's not quite what would be perfect.

To some extent that would actually be *worse* than making the text  
red, because by now it's become the most widely used visual trigger  
for finding within a document. To then use that for spell-as-you-type  
or similar would just cause confusion.

Ian