Re: number formatting
Re: number formatting
- Subject: Re: number formatting
- From: Lance Bland <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 16:45:49 -0500
On Friday, February 22, 2002, at 03:56 PM, email@hidden wrote:
Um... nobody has done anything about it because it's not regarded as a
bug, would be my guess. :-> Modularity of design is good. If you
want your value formatted, use an NSFormatter. If you want a cheaper
solution, use setStringValue: and format the string yourself. But
building in code in NSTextfield that lets you set things like the
precision, the exponent format, etc. would be an exceedingly bad
design, IMHO.
This is how I would implement it:
Define a shared number formatter for all text fields. That will work
for, say, 90% of the cases, if not more. Then I wouldn't have to create
all sorts of little number formatters (big waste of memory).
For the rare case make me drag a NSNumberFormatter from IB palette to
the text field.
That solution would also save on my wrist as I drag out hundreds of
formatters for no reason at all besides the fact that the default
behavior is useless.
I haven't looked into this problem in years because we make our own
formatters, so maybe something has changed and I can enable a default
behavior after all. If that is the case I'd like to know it.
-lance
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