Problem in getting stringValue from NSSecureTextField

I have a password field of type NSSecureTextField say passwordField and a NSButton. I have assigned return key as key equivalent for the button action triggering. After pressing the button I get user entered text as [passwordField stringValue] this will give the correct value only, when user press return key after entering his password but not when user clicks on the button through mou开发者_运维技巧se. In the latter case it will give nil value. I have tried hard to find the problem but no use. If anybody knows what is going wrong, please help me.

Regards ypk

EDIT: This is observed only in 10.5 and works fine on 10.6.

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Try checking Continuous on the text field in Interface Builder. Also make sure Action is set as Sent On End Editing.

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I've had a similar problem. For me, it turned out that the focus was not correctly set on the text field. Calling [window makeFirstResponder: textfield] after a timeout of 0.5 seconds solved it.

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I usually explicitly call [window makeFirstResponder:nil as one of the first lines in my button click events to ensure the Sent On End Editing event is called.