Question

Whenever the value of “_currentField” (which is a text field with number formatter) is greater then or equal to 1000 I want “_congrats” (which is a panel) to show up and when its less than 1000 I want “_errormsg” (another panel) to show up. Every time I enter in any value the only thing that pops up is “_errormsg”. What am I doing wrong?

- (void)onTimer:(NSTimer*)aTimer {

    if ([_currentField.stringValue integerValue] >= 1000)

    {
        [_congrats orderFront:(id)self];
        [_progIndicator stopAnimation:(id)self];
    } 

    else { 
        [_errormsg orderFront:(id)self];
        [_progIndicator stopAnimation:(id)self];

        }

    }

Answer 1

Since you are using a formatter you need to ask the formatter to resolve the value.

The formatter method of NSCell (that NSTextFieldCell inherits from) returns the formatter object. The numberFromString: method of the NSNumberFormatter returns the appropriate numerical value.

In this case, pass in the string value of the text field to the formatter’s numberFromString: and you should see things like 1,000 turn into 1000 (as an integer).