Re: Obtaining the number of characters in a string

2008-07-20 Thread Ron Fleckner
On 21/07/2008, at 6:26 AM, Phil Faber wrote: On 20 Jul 2008, at 13:16, Ron Fleckner wrote: Still struggling with documentation! That might be because the documentation makes the reasonable assumption that you already know how to use C and Objective-C. You're not recognising the differe

Re: Obtaining the number of characters in a string

2008-07-20 Thread Phil Faber
Thanks to all who helped me with this challenge of obtaining the number of characters in a string. On 20 Jul 2008, at 13:12, Tim Isted wrote: Try using [text2 setStringValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%i", [[Field1 stringValue] length]]]; Using setIntValue on a text field

Re: Obtaining the number of characters in a string

2008-07-20 Thread Andy Lee
On Jul 20, 2008, at 8:12 AM, Tim Isted wrote: Try using [text2 setStringValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%i", [[textField1 stringValue] length]]]; Using setIntValue on a text field won't set the text field's stringValue to be a string from that int. I believe this is incorrect. Try s

Re: Obtaining the number of characters in a string

2008-07-20 Thread Graham Cox
You can also use a formatter (which can be set up in IB) that allows you to call setIntValue: on a text field and have it display something sensible. Not sure if that will help or hinder, but it's there FWIW, hth Graham On 20 Jul 2008, at 10:12 pm, Tim Isted wrote: Try using [text2 se

Re: Obtaining the number of characters in a string

2008-07-20 Thread Ron Fleckner
On 20/07/2008, at 9:56 PM, Phil Faber wrote: Still struggling with documentation! That might be because the documentation makes the reasonable assumption that you already know how to use C and Objective-C. Simple task. I have two text fields (text1 & text2) and all I'm trying to achi

Re: Obtaining the number of characters in a string

2008-07-20 Thread Tim Isted
Try using [text2 setStringValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%i", [[textField1 stringValue] length]]]; Using setIntValue on a text field won't set the text field's stringValue to be a string from that int. Tim On 20 Jul 2008, at 12:56, Phil Faber wrote: Still struggling with document

Obtaining the number of characters in a string

2008-07-20 Thread Phil Faber
Still struggling with documentation! Simple task. I have two text fields (text1 & text2) and all I'm trying to achieve is to put into text2 a number specifying how many characters there are in the text in text1. I started with: [text2 setStringValue:[text1 stringValue]]; ..just to make s