On 31 Oct 2013, at 22:07, Kyle Sluder <k...@ksluder.com> wrote: >> 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. My regexes must start with some special character (e.g. '@', which is not part of the regex).
> I would think the best approach is to offer a checkbox to switch between > plain text and regex search. Agreed, but there are too many switches already in my case. > 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:. This is an excellent idea and works perfectly for me. Thank you very much indeed! Kind regards, Gerriet. _______________________________________________ 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
