Re: NSTextView/NSTextField Question
Re: NSTextView/NSTextField Question
- Subject: Re: NSTextView/NSTextField Question
- From: Mike Brinkman <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 14:26:22 -0500
Problem solved, but I was able to do the following:
[item setObject:[itemDescription string] forKey:@"itemDescription"];
Thanks for the quick response though!
Mike
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on 1/3/02 2:18 PM, Andrew Mortensen at email@hidden
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Try this:
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(assuming an instance of NSTextView or a subclass called textView)
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NSString *longString = [ textView string ];
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The -string method is found in NSText, which NSTextView inherits. It
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should return the entire contents of the NSTextView.
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andrew
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On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Mike Brinkman wrote:
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> I just made an item editor for a simple game I'm making. It consists of
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> several NSTextFields and an NSTableView for storing the info once I add an
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> item. For the text fields, I'm using [item setObject:[itemName stringValue]
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> forKey:@"itemName"]; to store the info into the table for the text fields.
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> One of the fields is an item description. I've got it stretched so it can
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> accommodate 3 lines of text, but the possibility exists that the description
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> could be longer than 3 lines. I'm limited in the size of the field due to my
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> application's layout, and I really don't want to change it.
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> Ideally, I'd like to use NSTextView for this field, but I can't find a
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> method for getting a string value from an NSTextView. Does such a method
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> exist? If not, does anybody know a way I can add a scroll bar into an
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> NSTextField? I've checked the foundation & app kit docs, but can't find
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> anything.
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> Thanks for any help you can give.
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> Mike Brinkman
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