Thanks for the help. The main gap in my understanding was that by default an NSFormatter uses the same format string for converting a string to an object and converting an object to a string. It is therefore fussy about how the user types the string.
By subclassing the formatter you can customise the behaviour (i.e. have it use a simple NSDateFormatterMediumStyle when formatting the date object to a string but customise parsing behaviour when it converts a NSString to a date object). It now seems quite elementary so I apologise for the noise! Matthew _______________________________________________ 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]
