Cocoa OSX NSTextField Allow Only Integer Value

Hello,

Recently I was working on MAC OSX application where we have a view with some textfields. Where in few textfields where only numeric values are allowed. In this blog I will explain how to do this.

I used NSNumberFormatter for that. First you have to create a class which extends NSNumberFormatter.

Go to your .m file and add new interface.

@interface OnlyIntegerValueFormatter : NSNumberFormatter

@end

Now implement this interface in same file.

@implementation OnlyIntegerValueFormatter

- (BOOL)isPartialStringValid:(NSString*)partialString newEditingString:(NSString**)newString errorDescription:(NSString**)error

{

    if([partialString length] == 0) {

        return YES;

    }

    

    NSScanner* scanner = [NSScanner scannerWithString:partialString];

    

    if(!([scanner scanInt:0] && [scanner isAtEnd])) {

        NSBeep();

        return NO;

    }

    

    return YES;

}

@end

That's it. Now create instance of OnlyIntegerValueFormatter and assign it to NSTextField. 

OnlyIntegerValueFormatter *formatter = [[OnlyIntegerValueFormatter alloc] init];

[self.onlyIntegerTextField setFormatter:formatter];

That's it. Now if you try to type characters in the textfield, it won't allow it.