Use NSNumberFormatter as correctly suggested. You can set its -positiveSuffix: string to "Days" and that's it. You're done.
--Graham On 28/04/2012, at 2:41 PM, Rick C. wrote: > Thanks for the reply but unfortunately I'm still stuck. Yes I did try the > delegate methods before posting here. I did not try the formatter methods > but can't figure out a way to make it work either. None of these methods > seem to get called if the text field is still in focus and the value is still > highlighted. Now if I would tab to another text field it's no problem > because mouseDown will get called again. But with only clicking Enter and > immediately trying to edit again by clicking with the mouse (while the value > is still highlighted) nothing seems to get called. What am I missing here? > Thanks, > > rc > > > > On Apr 28, 2012, at 12:34 AM, Charlie Dickman wrote: > >> You should have a look at the documentation for NSFormatter. You can define >> a formatter for your text field that gets called when a number of different >> things happen to/in the text field. >> >> You might also want to have a look at the delegate methods available for an >> NSTextField which get called when other things happen to/in the field. >> >> At first you might think that building a formatter for a field that already >> does what you want is redundant but you may find that the advantage of being >> able to get control at virtually all stages of editing is worth it. I >> certainly do. >> >> On Apr 27, 2012, at 12:12 PM, Rick C. wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I might be getting sleepy and overlooking the obvious, but I have a panel >>> with a few text fields and I'm trying to figure out what gets called after >>> entering a value into a text field and while it's still highlighted >>> clicking it again? In my case when entering a value into one of my text >>> fields (let's say "30") I append a string to that value (let's say "Days"). >>> I do this in the action method. In my subclass in mouseDown I make it >>> where if the value is "30 Days" when clicking the text field I will remove >>> the "Days" so the user can easily edit only the "30" and I append the >>> "Days" once again in the action method. My problem is after clicking Enter >>> for that text field if the user would try to edit it again without that >>> text field ever losing focus the "Days" is not removed because mouseDown >>> doesn't get called. And I haven't been able to figure out what does get >>> called in this situation? Thanks, _______________________________________________ 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
