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Re: Doc-based app, text fields, and losing focus
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Re: Doc-based app, text fields, and losing focus


  • Subject: Re: Doc-based app, text fields, and losing focus
  • From: Matthew Cox <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:24:22 -0500

On Tuesday, November 25, 2003, at 02:10 PM, James Mcconnell wrote:

Hi all. I have a doc-based app. On this I have several text fields. What I would like to do is to monitor when focus is lost on a text field, I want to check to see if the field is empty. If so, I want a dialog to prompt the user to enter a value. Basically, I want to make sure every field is filled in.

I know I can use notifications and NSAlert and all of that, but I don't know how to catch it when focus moves to another text field. I have 5 NSTextFields, and 2 NSTextViews.

So, how would I go about catching focus lost on a text field? Just a push in the right direction is all I ask. If anyone knows of any tutorials, that would be cool too.

The way you're probably looking for is to listen for textDidFinishEditing:(NSNotification *)note at which point you can do your validation. IMHO, the better way of doing this is to create a subclass of NSFormatter to handle your needs. Whatever works.


James
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