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- From: Scott Ribe <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:27:27 -0600
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> In general, if you could, it would result in a hideous UI.
Everything you say is true if the feedback mechanism is modal. But if it is
some kind of status indicator, all those problems go away. For instance, for
date & time entry I have a static text area below the entry area that shows
the parsed and cleaned-up version of what the user has typed so far, or
nothing at all if their entry is not (yet) a valid date & time. Or, in
another case, where a note must be limited to 80 characters because of
constraints imposed by an external system, a static area below the entry are
which tells the user how much more can be typed, or if the user goes over
how much too much has been typed (in red at that point).
Anyway, there's no built-in filtering mechanism, but you can certainly look
at the methods of NSRespondertext input, and use them to respond to data
entry (remember, not just keystrokes, but also paste, for example) and parse
at each incremental change.
--
Scott Ribe
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