[Cuis-dev] validating text input

[Mariano Montone]

El 3/4/25 a las 18:05, Mariano Montone escribió:
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> El 3/4/25 a las 14:49, Mark Volkmann via Cuis-dev escribió:
>> I'm looking for a way to validate input into a TextModelMorph. For 
>> example, maybe I only want to allow certain characters to be typed or 
>> I want to limit the number of characters that can be entered. I've 
>> looked through all the methods in TextModelMorph and InnerTextMorph, 
>> but don't see an obvious way to do this without creating new 
>> subclasses of one or both of those. Am I overlooking something?
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> I think you will have to subclass. TextModelMorph won't satisfy every 
> use-case.
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but I would look at #acceptContentsFrom:  in the model, and return false 
when input doesn't validate. Could be good enough for your purposes, but 
not sure.