Re: NSSearchField and CR
Re: NSSearchField and CR
- Subject: Re: NSSearchField and CR
- From: "Gerriet M. Denkmann" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 11:37:32 +0700
On 31 Oct 2013, at 22:07, Kyle Sluder <email@hidden> wrote:
>> On Oct 31, 2013, at 6:10 AM, "Gerriet M. Denkmann" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>>
>> I have an NSSearchField with sendsWholeSearchString = NO in order to do incremental searches.
>> But if the content of the search field is a regular expression, I only want to process it when the regular expression is complete, i.e. when the user enters CR (aka "return").
>>
>> Is there a way to distinguish between actionMethod is called because some character was added, or because the user hit CR?
>
> How do you determine whether the user is entering a regex? All plain strings are valid regexes.
My regexes must start with some special character (e.g. '@', which is not part of the regex).
> I would think the best approach is to offer a checkbox to switch between plain text and regex search.
Agreed, but there are too many switches already in my case.
> If you're dead-set on not offering a toggle, you could always ignore regex searches in the action method and implement -control:textView:doCommandBySelector: to process regexes when the field editor gets insertNewline:.
This is an excellent idea and works perfectly for me. Thank you very much indeed!
Kind regards,
Gerriet.
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