Re: Numeric Entry and Formatting With NSNumberFormatter Won't Append Zeros

2011-09-29 Thread Philip McIntosh
I suspect you're halfway to the solution. When you get a partially-entered string, you are already looking for the decimal point (which should of course be a localized comparison). You *could* try to insert the grouping separators yourself, but that would potentially involve writing a

Re: Numeric Entry and Formatting With NSNumberFormatter Won't Append Zeros

2011-09-28 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Sep 27, 2011, at 5:33 PM, Philip McIntosh ndpmcint...@earthlink.net wrote: I don't see anything wrong with pulling a string off a display, formatting it as a number, converting the number back into a string and redisplaying it. As I said the formatter works as expected with any number I

Re: Numeric Entry and Formatting With NSNumberFormatter Won't Append Zeros

2011-09-28 Thread Philip McIntosh
Message: 11 Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:28:42 -0700 From: Kyle Sluder kyle.slu...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Numeric Entry and Formatting With NSNumberFormatter Won't Append Zeros To: Philip McIntosh ndpmcint...@earthlink.net Cc: cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com Message

Re: Numeric Entry and Formatting With NSNumberFormatter Won't Append Zeros

2011-09-28 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Philip McIntosh ndpmcint...@earthlink.net wrote: user input builds up a string in the UITextView Yes and I want the grouping symbols and decimal separator to show up as the string is built up. Okay, I understand now. As the user is entering text, they are

Re: Numeric Entry and Formatting With NSNumberFormatter Won't Append Zeros

2011-09-28 Thread Quincey Morris
On Sep 28, 2011, at 15:50 , Philip McIntosh wrote: I want the number in the display (which is a string representation of the number) to be formatted as it is entered not after any return or calculate keys are pressed. I can get it to format and display the string correctly after such a key

Re: Numeric Entry and Formatting With NSNumberFormatter Won't Append Zeros

2011-09-28 Thread Quincey Morris
On Sep 28, 2011, at 16:26 , Quincey Morris wrote: based on a belief that the difference is small enough to be either really confusing or annoying Oops, I meant based on your belief that the difference is small enough to *not* be either really confusing or

Re: Numeric Entry and Formatting With NSNumberFormatter Won't Append Zeros

2011-09-28 Thread Lee Ann Rucker
On Sep 28, 2011, at 4:26 PM, Quincey Morris wrote: On Sep 28, 2011, at 15:50 , Philip McIntosh wrote: I want the number in the display (which is a string representation of the number) to be formatted as it is entered not after any return or calculate keys are pressed. I can get it to

Re: Numeric Entry and Formatting With NSNumberFormatter Won't Append Zeros

2011-09-27 Thread Philip McIntosh
Subject: Re: Numeric Entry and Formatting With NSNumberFormatter Won't Append Zeros To: Philip McIntosh ndpmcint...@earthlink.net Cc: cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com Message-ID: 62796e49-61ed-4b4a-8315-bdeaabeb4...@manoverboard.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 On 23 Sep

Numeric Entry and Formatting With NSNumberFormatter Won't Append Zeros

2011-09-26 Thread Philip McIntosh
I have a calculation project using buttons to input numbers into a UILabel. I want it to format the numbers as they are entered to display grouping separators. It has been a struggle but so far the best I have ben able to achieve is this (I got the basic idea from a post at stackoverflow.com):

Re: Numeric Entry and Formatting With NSNumberFormatter Won't Append Zeros

2011-09-26 Thread Fritz Anderson
On 23 Sep 2011, at 6:48 PM, Philip McIntosh wrote: I have a calculation project using buttons to input numbers into a UILabel. I want it to format the numbers as they are entered to display grouping separators. It has been a struggle but so far the best I have ben able to achieve is this

Re: Numeric Entry and Formatting With NSNumberFormatter Won't Append Zeros

2011-09-26 Thread Fritz Anderson
On 26 Sep 2011, at 2:33 PM, Fritz Anderson wrote: Once you've tamed those issues, see if your Forgive me… Once you've tamed those issues, see if your problem persists. Put a breakpoint at the beginning of the target method, step through, and see if the values are what you expect them to be.