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Re: Intelligent date squishing
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Re: Intelligent date squishing


  • Subject: Re: Intelligent date squishing
  • From: August Trometer <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:28:02 -0500

I think the best way to do this is to use a custom class for the table cell in question. Here's the solution I came up with. It's good for 10.3 as well as 10.4, but it doesn't do any sort of localizing. If you're writing for 10.4, you could use the new dateStyle constants, which would probably be better.

This may not be the best solution -- I'm sure someone will be happy to point out the flaws ;)



@implementation TMDateCell

- (void)drawWithFrame:(NSRect)cellFrame inView:(NSView *)controlView;
{
    int width = cellFrame.size.width;

    NSString *formatString;

    if (width < 130)
        formatString = @"%m/%d/%Y";
    else if (width < 145)
        formatString = @"%m/%d/%Y, %I:%M %p";
    else if (width < 170)
        formatString = @"%b %d, %Y, %I:%M %p";
    else if (width < 200)
        formatString = @"%B %d, %Y, %I:%M %p";
    else
        formatString = @"%A, %B %d, %Y, %I:%M %p";

NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] initWithDateFormat:formatString allowNaturalLanguage:YES] autorelease];
[self setFormatter:dateFormat];



[super drawWithFrame:cellFrame inView:controlView]; }

@end



-- August







On Aug 5, 2005, at 1:15 PM, Theodore H. Smith wrote:

I'm wondering how the Finder will "Squish" the dates if they are too big to be displayed in the current format. Is this a standard NSDateFormatter functionality or must I implement it myself?

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