I think I got it working thanks for the help!
On Apr 28, 2012, at 1:48 PM, Graham Cox wrote: > 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
