TextShouldBeginEditing Method (textObject)

Requests permission to begin editing text.

Original signature is '- (BOOL)textShouldBeginEditing:(NSText *)textObject'

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declaration Syntax

Visual Basic

Visual C++

public virtual bool TextShouldBeginEditing(
	NSText textObject
)

Public Overridable Function TextShouldBeginEditing ( _
	textObject As NSText _
) As Boolean

public:
virtual bool TextShouldBeginEditing(
	NSText^ textObject
)

Parameters

textObject (NSText): The text object requesting permission to begin editing.

Return Value

YES if the text object should proceed to make changes. If the delegate returns NO, the text object abandons the editing operation. The default behavior of this method is to return the value obtained from control:textShouldBeginEditing:, unless the delegate doesn’t respond to that method, in which case it returns YES, thereby allowing text editing to proceed.

Version Information

Available in Monobjc Bridge: 10.6 (For Mac OS X 10.6 and later), 10.5 (For Mac OS X 10.5 and later)

Assembly: Monobjc.AppKit (Module: Monobjc.AppKit)