Re: NSDatePickerCell -- Ever Worked ??
Re: NSDatePickerCell -- Ever Worked ??
- Subject: Re: NSDatePickerCell -- Ever Worked ??
- From: John Webb <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 08:00:52 -0500
At 08:10 PM 8/24/2006, you wrote:
Framework problems aren't resolved in developer tool releases.
Yes, I found that out. But I hoping... :-)
So my question is: has anyone ever successfully used a
NSDatePickerCell in a NSTableView ? And if so, what were the secret
incantations to get it to work ?
Just use NSDateFormatter; it works just fine in NSTableView.
Yes, that's going to be the fall-back if I can't get the
NSDatePickerCell working. But it going to require a lot more code
(add a delegate for edit validation/monitoring, etc) that I was
hoping I wouldn't have to write. And it's definitely a different user
experience. My table contains items that are "scheduled", so the
time and date fields are used for editing as much as for viewing.
Time/date changes (tweaks) might happen quite often in the
application. With a Date Picker, a user and make edits without ever
taking a hand off the mouse. Very different from a NSDateFormatter.
And if they do decide to edit by keyboard, their edits can be easily
confined to a particular element (ie. change just the minutes --
without accidently erasing the separator) and are automatically validated
Putting a date picker in a table view seems a little weird to me...
Weird ?! I don't know why you would think that. It's a Cell, just
like any of the other Cells. It listed on the IB palette of Cells
with all the others; it drags'drops off the palette into Table column
just fine. The NSDatePicker(Cell) is very flexible and gives a great
user experience, imo -- which is why I'm so frustrated that it's not
working properly.
Oh well; one man's "weird" is another man's well designed interface
component (if only it wasn't broken).
John
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