[KeithOP]

Hi all,

Just want to accept dates of the format Sat, 16 Mar 2002 10:44:24 -0700 and have dateformatter format them all to say, 16/03/2002

I setup a textfield and got it working fine in there just with IB and a format string... no problem.

So went to my app which has an outlineview with 3 columns. clicked on the header of the third column and inserted a dataformatter in IB. Could change the string and see the sample data in IB in the table change to be the right format. So far so good.

When I run the app though, that column stays blank. (other 2 columns work fine still). Remove the formatter and the raw date goes in no problem.

To help debug, I set objectValueForTableColumn to return "12/12/2002" when asked for data for that column... knowing it was a valid date I could easily setup for... still blank (tried turning on natural language and returning yesterday.. same result).

I even tried putting a normal number formatter on and gave it "12" as the data... and still blank

What am I missing?

Thanks all,
Keith

[tobli]

Why not return a NSDate object?

[lindberg]

NSDateFormatter expects NSCalendarDate instances as its "object value", and formats them to a string for display. Going the other way, it takes a string from the user and creates an NSCalendarDate instance to be stored in the underlying model. So, in your objectValueForTableColumn: method, return an NSCalendarDate instance, and in setObject:forTableColumn:, expect an NSCalendarDate instance to be passed to you, not a string.