Re: Storing NSString with attributes
Re: Storing NSString with attributes
- Subject: Re: Storing NSString with attributes
- From: Ivan Myrvold <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 10:58:37 +0300
On sxndag, desember 2, 2001, at 09:38 , Brendan Younger wrote:
On Sunday, December 2, 2001, at 11:50 AM, Ivan Myrvold wrote:
My application have two NSTextView which a user can edit texts, and an
NSOutlineView in a drawer where the user can click on a line, and the
contents of the two NSTextView's will change accordingly.
This works very well with basic text, I am using the "string" and
"setString" methods to get and set the text in the two views.
But I thought I would add the possibility to set some text attributes,
like bold and italic etc.
It was very easy to add the font menu in IB to the application, and
the thing worked also...until I changed to a new line in the outline
view.
That is probably because I use the "string" method to extract the text
from the NSTextView, and even if I have selected some text to be bold,
the string method is stripped of any such attributes.
So which method should I use to extract the text from my views? I have
read the NSText, NSAttributedString, NSTextStorage documents without
quite understanding how to do this.
NSTextStorage inherits from NSMutableAttributedString. Therefore you
can simply call -textStorage and get an NSMutableAttributed string to
do whatever you want with.
Brendan Younger
OK, so whenever I want to store away the attributed text from
myTextView , I simply do a:
NSMutableAttributedString *myAttributedString;
myAttributedString = [[myTextView textStorage] copy];
But what should I do when I want the myAttributedString back into
myTextView?
Ivan