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Undo grouping question
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Undo grouping question


  • Subject: Undo grouping question
  • From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:51:17 -0500

I'm trying to implement live undo and redo while editing a text field that
has an attached on-the-fly formatter. I create a separate text view to serve
as the text field's field editor and turn on its undo support. Everything
works fine except for this:

The undo manager opens a new undo group every time my formatter inserts a
delimiter character programmatically while I'm typing (e.g., the formatter
inserts a comma after every third digit I type). After that, if I invoke
Undo and Redo a few times, the undo manager gets out of sync and I
eventually crash with a range error.

I can't find an easy way to prevent the opening of a new undo group. It
looks like I might have to write a subclass of NSTextView and make it the
field editor for this text field, so that I can override a method to adjust
the range and replacement string that the text system expects from the
formatter.

It would help if I understood what is triggering the opening of a new undo
group, so here's the QUESTION: How does NSTextView decide when it needs to
open a new undo group?

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