Re: Distinguish Pending Text from Committed Text
Re: Distinguish Pending Text from Committed Text
- Subject: Re: Distinguish Pending Text from Committed Text
- From: Dong Feng <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 10:35:48 +0800
Thanks Michael and Gideon's reply. [NSTextInput markedRange] works.
A minor question is that [NSWindow fieldEditor] returns an NSText*,
rather than an NSTextView*. I think that's because of historical
reason and it should be safe to always cast a returned NSText point to
an NSTextView. Is it safe?
2009/5/20 Michael Ash <email@hidden>:
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Dong Feng <email@hidden> wrote:
>> When using an non-English input method, such as Japanese or Chinese,
>> the entered characters are first in a pending status (i.e. with an
>> underscore). Pressing the space key make those pending text converted
>> to the actual non-English characters. Pressing the Enter key make the
>> underscore beneath the letters disappear. Either way, the pending text
>> become committed.
>>
>> I want to programmatically distinguish the committed text from the
>> pending one, in a NSTextField. [NSTextField stringValue] returns the
>> sum, not only the committed part. Is there any way to do so?
>
> Check out the NSTextInput protocol. NSTextView conforms to that
> protocol, so if you get the field editor from your NSTextField, you
> can use those methods. I believe that "marked" is what that protocol
> calls what you are referring to as "pending", but I'm not 100% sure.
>
> (Warning: I've never tried any of this.)
>
> Mike
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