Change the text in a NSTextField programmatically?

Question

I am used to doing this in Cocoa-touch, so I assumed it would be quite simple. I have already tried:

field.text = [nsstring stringwithformat:@"%i", number];
[field setText:@"%i", number];

and setString, all to no avail.

Answer 1

This will work:

[field setStringValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%i",number]];

If it doesn't do anything, it probably means field isn't set to point to the field (e.g. by making a connection in Interface Builder).

Answer 2

You should be able to use the setStringValue: method that NSTextField inherits from NSControl.

The full signature is:

- (void)setStringValue:(NSString *)aString