[macrophyllum]

Hi,

This should be an easy one to answer, I hope

I have a table view which has a column for dates. I formatted the column using a date formatter in my awakeFromNib; everything looks fine. When I double click to edit the date column and change the date from 9/02/03 to 9/23/03 I just get a system beep and the field stays in "editing mode". If I delete the entire date and hit return, it ends editing and then crashes.

Any suggestions?

[Brass]

Sounds like it thinks 9/23/03 is not a valid date (which it's not in most countries). Can you post your formatter code here or otherwise just double check to make sure that it allows this date format?

[Devin Lane]

9/23/03 is definitely a valid date format. Do you have the date formatter set to use that date format? That might be the problem.

[Brass]

Originally posted by Devin Lane:
9/23/03 is definitely a valid date format. Do you have the date formatter set to use that date format? That might be the problem.

Being a valid date depends on what the date format is for that text object's formatter.

[macrophyllum]

I use the users short date format from System Prefs so I think the 9/23/03 is a valid date, because it populates the column with dates in that format.

Here is the code that I use to format the table column cell:

NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] initWithDateFormat:
[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] objectForKey:NSShortDateFormatString]
allowNaturalLanguage:NO] autorelease];

[[[tableView tableColumnWithIdentifier:dateColumn] dataCell] setFormatter:dateFormat];