On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Jon C. Munson II <[email protected]> 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.


> 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.


> 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/IBPlugInGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html


> 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.

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I.S.
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