Question

I’m just picking up the basics of Cocoa and Interface Builder — using IB version 3.2.6. I’m looking to learn how to use MacRuby for native OS X apps.

I have an NSTextField that I would like to only accept integer values. I used NSNumberFormatter but it doesn’t seem to have an option to only accept integers.

How would you do this? Can it be done in Interface Builder?

Answer 1

A naive but effective approach would be to subclass NSTextField and (this is the naive part) ovverride textDidChange to force the digited value to a number:

In other words, create a new ruby file in your Classes folder add this code to It and change the field class inside IB (your xib > filed you want to change > inspector > Class dropdown)

class OnlyNumbersTextField < NSTextField
    def textDidChange(notification)

        self.setIntValue(self.intValue)

    end
end

Hope this helps.