Re: Real-Time Validation in a NSTextField.

2010-02-22 Thread Abhinay Kartik Reddyreddy
Thanks James, I wrote a subclass of NSNumberFormatter. It works like a charm. -Cheers, Abhinay On Feb 19, 2010, at 1:15 PM, James Walker wrote: > On 2/18/2010 2:18 PM, Abhinay Kartik Reddyreddy wrote: > >> I was wondering if there is any alternative / better approach >> for validating text in

Re: Real-Time Validation in a NSTextField.

2010-02-19 Thread James Walker
On 2/18/2010 2:18 PM, Abhinay Kartik Reddyreddy wrote: I was wondering if there is any alternative / better approach for validating text in a textfield?? I've done this by writing a custom subclass of NSFormatter that overrides isPartialStringValid:newEditingString:errorDescription:. --

Real-Time Validation in a NSTextField.

2010-02-18 Thread Abhinay Kartik Reddyreddy
I have a NSTextField which should only accept numbers in a certain range say (-72000.00 to 72000.00). I tried using NSFormatter whihc worked partially. when i hit any alphabet character on the keyboard, the value in the NSTextField stays numeric but the cursor moves forward which is not desire