Re: COCOA: Simplest Way of Formatted Text
Re: COCOA: Simplest Way of Formatted Text
- Subject: Re: COCOA: Simplest Way of Formatted Text
- From: j o a r <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 23:17:07 +0100
No, you're of course not "talking crazy" - but you need to understand
that the text system is the most complex set of classes in all of
Cocoa. The basics is easy, and I have a feeling that what you ask for
is not very complicated - but don't expect to get a tutorial of the
Cocoa text system in an email on this list. You _need_ to take the time
to read the documentation and play with the sample code until you get
to grips with it.
If you have a specific question on something that you need to do, or
something that you don't understand in the documentation, it would be
easier for us to help you.
It sounds to me that what you're asking for below is the ability to
grab the formatted contents of a NSTextView, to be able to store it or
use it outside of the text view? Like Douglas and Chris already told
you, the answer is to be found in NSTextView, NSText (Don't forget to
read the documentation for superclasses!), NSTextStorage and
NSAttributedString.
Something like this will create a copy of the current contents of a
text view named "myTextView":
NSAttributedString *aStr = [[NSAttributedString alloc]
initWithAttributedString: [myTextView textStorage]];
This will create a serialized representation suitable for archiving:
NSData *data = [myTextView RTFDFromRange: NSMakeRange(0, [[myTextView
textStorage] length])];
This will restore serialized data to a text view:
[myTextView replaceCharactersInRange: NSMakeRange(0, [[myTextView
textStorage] length]) withRTFD: data];
("Programmed" in Mail, watch out!)
j o a r
On Tuesday, Jan 21, 2003, at 22:35 Europe/Stockholm, Nebagakid wrote:
What I am looking for, for example, is a way to take the entire
contents of an NSTextView (with different colors, fonts, even
pictures) and be able to put that into one string with just saying "I
want this variable to be equal to the Rich Text of this Text View"
.... Am I talking crazy here (I am really new at Cocoa) ?
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