> On Oct 31, 2013, at 6:10 AM, "Gerriet M. Denkmann" <gerr...@mdenkmann.de> > wrote:
> > I have an NSSearchField with sendsWholeSearchString = NO in order to do > incremental searches. > But if the content of the search field is a regular expression, I only want > to process it when the regular expression is complete, i.e. when the user > enters CR (aka "return"). > > Is there a way to distinguish between actionMethod is called because some > character was added, or because the user hit CR? How do you determine whether the user is entering a regex? All plain strings are valid regexes. I would think the best approach is to offer a checkbox to switch between plain text and regex search. Then the user won't be confused why "hello." matches "hellos", or why search-as-you-type just stopped working in the middle of a string just because they typed some punctuation. In that case, you can just change the sendsWholeSearchString property depending on the search mode. If you're dead-set on not offering a toggle, you could always ignore regex searches in the action method and implement -control:textView:doCommandBySelector: to process regexes when the field editor gets insertNewline:. --Kyle Sluder _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
