Re: Help with text input
Re: Help with text input
- Subject: Re: Help with text input
- From: Bill Appleton <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:08:03 -0700
hi all,
don't i need to use interpretKeyEvents to gather the key events until
insertText is called?
wow there is very little information on that....
thx
bill
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Shawn Erickson <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Bill Appleton
> <email@hidden> wrote:
> > hi all,
> >
> > this is great, thanks for the help.
> >
> > one issue is that the old carbon kEventTextInputUnicodeForKeyEvent
> delivered
> > typed characters that should be inserted into (say) of text field
> >
> > the new [event characters] method delivers ALL keys -- so for example, an
> > arrow key gets a unicode equivalent & now that is also getting typed
> >
> > does anyone know how to filter between characters that should be typed &
> > other stuff?
>
> You can look at the modifier flags and/or detect the unicode code
> space being used.
>
> With that said if you are trying to process text input into text
> fields using NSEvents you really should reconsider if at all possible.
> You will miss out on the text input capabilities that Cocoa provides
> to you for free when you use standard AppKit controls or higher level
> text input constructs.
>
> -Shawn
>
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