1191283 - nsChildView.mm:5197:9: warning: 'insertText:' is deprecated: first deprecated in OS X 10.6

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1180564

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect, P5)

Description

[Xidorn Quan [:xidorn] UTC+11]

0:08.15 Warning: -Wdeprecated-declarations in /Users/upsuper/Projects/mozilla-central/widget/cocoa/nsChildView.mm: 'insertText:' is deprecated: first deprecated in OS X 10.6
 0:08.15 /Users/upsuper/Projects/mozilla-central/widget/cocoa/nsChildView.mm:5197:9: warning: 'insertText:' is deprecated: first deprecated in OS X 10.6 [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
 0:08.15   [self insertText:@"\n"];
 0:08.15         ^
 0:08.15 /System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Headers/NSInputManager.h:18:1: note: 'insertText:' has been explicitly marked deprecated here
 0:08.15 - (void) insertText:(id)aString NS_DEPRECATED_MAC(10_0, 10_6); // instead of keyDown: aString can be NSString or NSAttributedString
 0:08.15 ^

Comment 1

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

Yes, this has long been deprecated:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Protocols/NSTextInput_Protocol/index.html#//apple_ref/occ/intfm/NSTextInput/insertText:

But Apple doesn't document any direct replacement.  And the OS still uses it internally, and is very likely to continue to do so.

At some point we should deal with this, I suppose.  But the priority is very low.