Re: Invisible Characters
Re: Invisible Characters
- Subject: Re: Invisible Characters
- From: Dustin Voss <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 15:19:10 -0700
On Sunday, August 3, 2003, at 02:27 PM, James Quick wrote:
On Sunday, August 3, 2003, at 02:20 PM, Francisco Tolmasky wrote:
Ok, so I want to have invisible characters, kind of like the way
BBEdit has them. So what I'm doing so far is calling
NSLayoutManager's setShowsInvisibleCharacters: with YES, like this:
(inside tableview subclass)
[[self layoutManager] setShowsInvisibleCharacters: YES];
Now, I've tried with a few fonts and this does not seem to do
anything. So I've reached the conclusion that I'm either doing
something wrong or all the fonts I've tried do not support invisible
characters.
Does anyone have any input on this? Also, if I want to show the same
invisible characters no matter what font is chosen, is there an easy
way to do this without having to create my own fonts or something.
From the documentation:
NSSecureTextField is a subclass of NSTextField that hides its text
from display or other access via the user interface. It's suitable for
use as a password-entry object or for any item in which a secure value
must be kept.
Sounds like the AppKit beat you to it.
That isn't what he meant. BBEdit's "invisible characters" are like MS
Word's invisible characters. Typically, a carriage-return will show up
as the backwards-p paragraph symbol, a space will show up as a dot, a
tab will show up as an arrow or logical negation symbol or something
like that, etc.
That said, I don't know how to answer Francisco's question.
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