Re: Short Date Format for NSCalendarDate in bound NSTableColumn

FROM : Jonathan Fewtrell
DATE : Sat Apr 16 18:44:36 2005

On 16 Apr 2005, at 17:17, glenn andreas wrote:

>> I have an array of model objects displayed in an NSTableView
>> controlled via binding through an  NSArrayController. One of the
>> ivars of the model is of class NSCalendarDate and is bound to one of
>> the NSTableColumns.
>>
>> In basic form it displays OK, but the default date format is too
>> long. Unfortunately the NSDateFormatter included in IB cannot handle
>> the NSShortDateFormatString. There is no token for this (and I want
>> the short format to be as set by the user in System Preferences,
>> rather than imposing a format myself).
>>
>> So I thought I'd write a ValueTransformer instead. Here's the code:
>>

>
> Not that this directly solves the problem you're seeing, but as an
> alternate approach you could write your own NSDateFormatter subclass
> instead


Thanks for the suggestion. I may have to do that, but I think that
means I'd need to attach the formatter programatically to each date
column (I have several). I was hoping to avoid setting up all those
outlets and connections.