Interface Builder Fonts
Posted April 26th, 2004 @ 03:29pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Perhaps the most frustrating thing about Interface Builder? The pain in the ass better known as "trying to set a table view to use a certain font." The fonts panel doesn't update itself to reflect the current selection, the table view itself doesn't seem to update itself until you click off on another item - it's crap. It's pure, utter crap. Why is this so difficult? I can't even set a font for a text view sometimes. A text view for crissakes.
Why is all of this so freakin' hard? What the heck kind of crap is IB to do this to you? Pure, utter crap I tell ya.
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Posted 26 Apr 2004 at 3:43pm #
When it doesn't work I usually realize I'm setting it for the scroll view (which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't) and I double-click on it to select the actual control.
Posted 26 Apr 2004 at 3:46pm #
That's not it Kevin.
And I'd file a bug report, but it'd be titled "font setting in IB 99% broken" and the steps to reproduce would say "1. attempt to use IB to set a font on practically anything."
Posted 26 Apr 2004 at 4:03pm #
I agree. 99% broken is true. Considering I simply cannot, ever, successfully set the font on a vanilla, non-subclasses NSTextView I consider it broken.
So far my workaround has been to manually call [[textView storage] setFont: ...] *every* damn time I do a text append.
Posted 26 Apr 2004 at 4:57pm #
I sometimes wonder why Apple doesn't open up the code for IB and xcode a bit. I suspect someone would submit a fix for things like this fairly quickly, and everyone would benefit.
Posted 26 Apr 2004 at 4:58pm #
Oooh - Green.