Although, to be clear, you *can* do this is in code, just not the way you
were doing it. You have to make sure you're talking to this instance at the
right moment, i.e. before the window appear but after the instance (the text
field) has been assembled by the nib. That moment, of course, is
i've got something i think is close...
i've got a custom cell, and a custom textfield,
i've got an override implementation of drawInteriorWithFrame that i
think will work.
but i'm confused as to where to call drawInteriorWithFrame, right
now it is inside the custom Cell, but the
On or about 9/29/09 4:43 PM, thus spake jon trambl...@mac.com:
is properly using my custom textfield, but the custom textfield doesn't
appear to be using the custom cell
Then you have to *make* the custom textfield use the custom cell. :) Use
whips and chains if necessary. Actually, I think
hmmm, well i'm trying hard to do it...here is what i've done...
in a header:
IBOutlet ImageTextField *addressBar;
i've created this pointer to this instance...
and then in the awakefromNib method, i have this...
[ImageTextField setCellClass:[ImageTextFieldCell class]];
this set's the
+setCellClass: just tells the view Hey next time you initialize
yourself, make a cell of this class. Since your ImageTextField
instance was created inside of IB, this is never going to happen.
Instead you need to change the class of the cell from within IB, under
the Identity inspector. It might
ahh, that was it, thanks a lot, that made perfect sense once i
looked inside IB
I was also surprised that IB knew about my custom cell class...
I was thinking code code code... and i just needed that shove in the
correct direction...
you made my day, after a very long day...
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:37:00 -0600, jon trambl...@mac.com said:
i've got a textfield defined...
but i don't want to draw the text that is in the field right up
against the left boarder of the bounding box of this defined field in
IB,
I want to start the text like 20 pixels to the right of the
