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Re: NSTextField, maximum string length, bindings and NSFormatter
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Re: NSTextField, maximum string length, bindings and NSFormatter


  • Subject: Re: NSTextField, maximum string length, bindings and NSFormatter
  • From: Dmitriy Balakirev <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 19:41:15 +0400

For limiting text in NSTextField this works well: (_limit == 5, 30, etc.)

- (BOOL)isPartialStringValid:(NSString *__autoreleasing *)partialStringPtr
       proposedSelectedRange:(NSRangePointer)proposedSelRangePtr
              originalString:(NSString *)origString
       originalSelectedRange:(NSRange)origSelRange
            errorDescription:(NSString *__autoreleasing *)error {

    NSString *partialStr = *partialStringPtr;
    if ([partialStr length]) {
        if ([partialStr length] <= _limit) {
            *partialStringPtr = [partialStr uppercaseString];
            return NO;
        }
        *partialStringPtr = [NSString stringWithString:origString];
        *proposedSelRangePtr = NSMakeRange(origSelRange.location, origSelRange.length);
        return NO;
    } else {
        return YES;
    }
}

Want only certain char? Do that:

- (NSCharacterSet *)forbiddenSet {
    if (!_forbiddenSet) {
        NSString *alphaStr = @"qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm";
        NSMutableCharacterSet *allowedSet = [NSMutableCharacterSet characterSetWithCharactersInString:alphaStr];
        [allowedSet addCharactersInString:[alphaStr uppercaseString]];
        _forbiddenSet = [allowedSet invertedSet];
    }
    return _forbiddenSet;
}

- (BOOL)isPartialStringValid:(NSString *__autoreleasing *)partialStringPtr
       proposedSelectedRange:(NSRangePointer)proposedSelRangePtr
              originalString:(NSString *)origString
       originalSelectedRange:(NSRange)origSelRange
            errorDescription:(NSString *__autoreleasing *)error {

    NSString *partialStr = *partialStringPtr;
    if ([partialStr length]) {
        NSRange rangeOfForbiddenChar = [partialStr rangeOfCharacterFromSet:[self forbiddenSet]];
        if ((rangeOfForbiddenChar.location == NSNotFound) && ([partialStr length] <= _limit)) {
            *partialStringPtr = [partialStr uppercaseString];
            return NO;
        }
        *partialStringPtr = [NSString stringWithString:origString];
        *proposedSelRangePtr = NSMakeRange(origSelRange.location, origSelRange.length);
        return NO;
    } else {
        return YES;
    }
}
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