Re: Control the font in a text view

• Subject: Re: Control the font in a text view
• From: Gil Dawson <email@hidden>
• Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 13:57:58 -0700
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Yes!  Perfect!  That's it!

Thanks, Philip!

--Gil

As you have discovered, the font you set in Interface Builder doesn't stick. You can, however, set the font in your code. You need to use a "call method". Add this line to your code:

set its font to call method "fontWithName:size:" of class "NSFont" with parameters {"Courier", 14}

So your code looks like this:

tell text view 1 of scroll view 1 of window "Lyrics"
set its font to call method "fontWithName:size:" of class "NSFont" with parameters {"Courier", 14}
set its contents to myString
end tell

The font and font size that you want for the text view is set in the parameters of that line ... {"Courier", 14}. If you wanted a font style other than regular, e.g. if you wanted the text in the text view displayed in Times Italic, 18 point, then the parameters would be ... {"Times-Italic", 18}

Hope that helps

Philip

On Sun 11/05/08 6:05 AM , Gil Dawson email@hidden sent:

 As my first AS project, I have managed to create a little window with

 a few buttons and a text view that displays the contents of myString

 when my program executes the following code:

 tell text view 1 of scroll view 1 of window "Lyrics"

 set its contents to myString

 end tell

 I would like to display this string in a monospaced font, like Monaco

 or Courier, for example.  Any ideas on how to do this?

 I tried...

 in Interface Builder, I...

 selected the Text View

 (or the Scroll View; it doesn't seem to make any difference)

 pulled down from Format to Font to "Show Fonts"

 in the Font floating window that appeared,

 selected "Fixed Width" Courier" "Regular" "12"

 (Here I wasn't sure what to do so I...)

 closed the Font floating window

 Then I clicked "Build and Go" and "Save All".  In a few seconds, my

 app launched and myString appeared in the window, but still in the

 same old proportional font.

 Any suggestions?

--Gil

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