Re: NSComboBox bug?

FROM : Nicholas Riley
DATE : Thu Oct 31 20:50:59 2002

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 11:29:52AM -0800, matt neuburg wrote:
> >Nope, it's a bug that's been there since 10.0.  You can't have a combo
> >box with a formatter if you want the combo box to work.
>
> Piffle. Formatters work perfectly well with comboboxes; I use them
> all the time. A combination of a formatter and a datasource is a
> very powerful way to run a combobox.

It would be lovely if it were documented somewhere.

My bug report with Apple remains open, so I assume they also consider
this behavior to be a bug.  In the specific case of Pester, I want to
complete with dates, not numbers, and I don't want the formatter to
apply to the dates because I want them represented as human-readable
dates (e.g. "tomorrow" instead of "1/11/02").

> The problem with the above example is that an NSNumberFormatter
> expects numeric values, but "0", "1" and so forth aren't numbers;
> they're strings. m.

This makes it impossible to edit the combo box list from IB - again,
this is not documented.

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=Nicholas Riley <<email_removed>> | <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/njriley>
        Pablo Research Group, Department of Computer Science and
  Medical Scholars Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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