Right. I figure though that asking for stringValue grabs the text from
the field editor, so why doesn't setEnabled do the same to commit
current editing? Seems logical to me. I can't imagine a situation
where you'd want text the user typed into a field to be ignored after
they already typed it.
--
Seth Willits
On Aug 11, 2008, at 10:40 PM, Graham Cox wrote:
I suspect it's because of the Field Editor. The text isn't really
"in the field", it's in the shared field editor. If the field is
disabled, it won't be updated from the field editor because disabled
means "refuse input". Also, it may be that when a control that is
using the field editor is disabled, it disconnects from the field
editor and clears its contents.
You could try calling -validateEditing on the field prior to
disabling it, which should copy over the text content from the field
editor so that the field indeed does have this value.
hth,
cheers, Graham
On 12 Aug 2008, at 3:31 pm, Seth Willits wrote:
If a text field has focus, you type "blah blah blah" into it, and
then click a button which asks for its string value and disables
the text field, you get "blah blah blah" back.
If a text field has focus, you type "blah blah blah" into it, and
then click a button which disables the text field first and then
asks for its string value, you get an empty string...
I can make up some reasoning in my head for why that'd make sense,
but it just doesn't sit well with me. If the text is *IN THE FIELD*
before the field is disabled, then clearly it should be considered
its string value. I can't imagine this being a bug simply because
*somebody* would have noticed and fixed it by now, but I can't
understand why this would be desirable behavior.
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