Custom field editor not drawing - objective-c

Question

I'm trying to subclass NSTokenField to intercept some of the keyboard events. I wrote subclasses for NSTokenField, NSTokenFieldCell and NSTextView. In the NSTokenField subclass I swap the regular cell with my custom cell and in the custom cell I override -(NSTextView*)fieldEditorForView:(NSView *)aControlView to provide my textview as a custom field editor. All the initialisation methods are called as expected but for some reason my custom token field is not drawn.
Here is the code for the NSTokenField subclass:
#synthesize fieldEditor = _fieldEditor;
-(JSTextView *)fieldEditor
{
if (!_fieldEditor) {
_fieldEditor = [[JSTextView alloc] init];
[_fieldEditor setFieldEditor:YES];
}
return _fieldEditor;
}
- (void)awakeFromNib {
JSTokenFieldCell *newCell = [[JSTokenFieldCell alloc] init];
[self setCell:newCell];
}
+ (Class) cellClass
{
return [JSTokenFieldCell class];
}
- (id)initWithFrame:(NSRect)frameRect
{
self = [super initWithFrame:frameRect];
if (self) {
JSTokenFieldCell *newCell = [[JSTokenFieldCell alloc] init];
[self setCell:newCell];
}
return self;
}
-(id)initWithCoder:(NSCoder *)aDecoder
{
self = [super initWithCoder:aDecoder];
if (self) {
JSTokenFieldCell *newCell = [[JSTokenFieldCell alloc] initWithCoder:aDecoder];
[self setCell:newCell];
}
return self;
}
And here is the code for the subclass of NSTokenFieldCell:
-(NSTextView*)fieldEditorForView:(NSView *)aControlView
{
if ([aControlView isKindOfClass:[JSTokenField class]]) {
JSTokenField *tokenField = (JSTokenField *)aControlView;
return tokenField.fieldEditor;
}
return nil;
}
- (id)initWithCoder:(NSCoder *)decoder
{
return [super initWithCoder:decoder];
}
- (id)initTextCell:(NSString *)aString
{
return [super initTextCell:aString];
}
- (id)initImageCell:(NSImage *)anImage
{
return [super initImageCell:anImage];
}
Addition
After further digging I found this post which says that the only way to have an NSTokenField with a custom text view is by overriding private methods. Is it true? If so, is there any other way I can intercept keyboard events without subclassing NSTextView?