looking for ways to monitor text entered into a textfield
looking for ways to monitor text entered into a textfield
- Subject: looking for ways to monitor text entered into a textfield
- From: Mark Aufflick <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:47:50 +1100
I am playing with an idea for a new style of outliner type program. One
of the things I want to do is interpret tags and links as they are
entered into the text much like a wiki.
so let's say you entered the following text into a node (starting with
the main node):
The lazy fox jumped over the [fluffy lambs]
then there would be a node titled "fluffy lambs" automatically created
as a child of the current node.
That's a big simplification of the idea, but it's where i'm starting
for a prototype.
I have looked at subclassing the container holding the text view and
monitoring all events to track the key events. Anything that introduced
or deleted a ] character would trigger a search for it's matching [.
This approach has lots of limitations to work around and I am really
hoping that there is some smart feature of a cocoa text class that will
notify me when an edit causes a pattern to be matched.
If anyone has any great ideas about how to accomplish something along
these lines in Cocoa I would really appreciate it!
Cheers,
/Mark
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