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. -- I.S. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) 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 [email protected]
