On May 1, 2012, at 2:47 PM, Quincey Morris wrote:

> On May 1, 2012, at 14:23 , Ben Kennedy wrote:
> 
>> I have an NSTableView whose data source is bound to an NSArrayController.  
>> To one of its columns (displaying a custom type) I have attached a custom 
>> NSFormatter subclass.  The NSFormatter correctly returns NO from 
>> getObjectValue:forString:error: if the supplied string is not acceptable.  
>> Despite this, however, validation is not enforced; when tabbing out of the 
>> field, the table view carries on and just assigns a null value to the 
>> corresponding property.
> 
> Double-check that "Validates immediately" is checked for the binding. 
> Counter-intuitively, this doesn't mean "immediately" in the sense of every 
> keystroke, but "immediately" in the sense of when editing ends. If it's not 
> checked, validation is presumably deferred until an entire view's worth of 
> fields has been entered.

That seems to be at odds with the Bindings documentation: 
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CocoaBindings/Concepts/MessageFlow.html

The validation should be triggered as soon as the text field tries to commit 
editing.

--Kyle Sluder
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