> > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Jon C. Munson II <jmun...@his.com> wrote: > > To create this formatter for use in IB, should I go the route of a plug- > in? > > Yes. If you want to be able to set this at design time, you should > create an IB plugin containing this formatter. >
[Jon C. Munson II] OK, that's what I figured. I'm looking into that now. > > > Is it possible to simply instantiate the object with a settable > property? > > No. IB has to know what UI to display to allow you to manipulate the > instantiated object. Thus, a plugin is required. > > [Jon C. Munson II] Also figured that too, so thank you for the confirmation. > > And where may I find documentation that describes the particular process > of > > exposing the property so IB can see it (if other than creating a plug- > in) > > and thus allowing setting? > > http://developer.apple.com/documentation/developertools/Conceptual/IBPlugI > nGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html > > [Jon C. Munson II] Already reading that one. :) > > As a side note, has anyone requested of Apple that some sort of min or > > maxLength properties be made available? That would be a really good > default > > property to have on any sort of text field! > > If they did, they've done so via http://bugreporter.apple.com ... > which is what you should do as well. > [Jon C. Munson II] Done. The number is: 6754683 > -- > I.S. [Jon C. Munson II] THANKS!!! _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
