On 5/22/07, Sebastian Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On 21.05.2007, at 17:10, Jim DeVona wrote:

> On 5/21/07, Sebastian Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> 1. In the serial number and password templates the comment field is
>> way to small. How can I make it bigger? For instance, if I get an
>> email with a serial number in it, I  want to store the whole email
>> along with the serial number. Then, for some products I have license
>> keys + several machines IDs that just need more space in the comments
>> field.
>
> I believe the bookmark, serial number, and password item comment
> fields do scroll, but I hear what you're saying about the visible size
> of the field. Happily, these properties are pretty easy to tinker with
> in Interface Builder. Here are versions whose comment fields expand to
> fill the remainder of the item pane:
>
> http://anoved.net/2007/05/expanded-yojimbo-comment-fields.html

Thanks, so far this seems to work very well. What is Interface
Builder? Can I use it to create my own templates?

Interface Builder is an Apple developer tool for setting up
interfaces. It is one of the programs installed if you install the
"Developer Tools" from your system CD.

I am not sure what you mean by templates. You can use Interface
Builder to rearrange existing interface elements, so in that sense,
yes, you can customize the standard views. (The Yojimbo "widescreen
hack" is another example of this:
http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/yojimbo-widescreen-view-hack)

However, for the most part, Interface Builder only edits the program
interface, not its functionality, so you can't, for instance, add
support for a new type of item just by designing a window for it. (If
you were writing a new program from scratch, of course, you would
certainly create new interface elements.) I would refrain from making
anything other than cosmetic changes to the interface of an existing
program; even that is "hack" territory that Bare Bones (or any other
vendor) can't be expected to support.

Or by templates do you simply mean like default item text that appears
in the fields whenever you create a new item?

Jim

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