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Re: Attributed Strings, NSTextField, and NSTextView
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Re: Attributed Strings, NSTextField, and NSTextView


  • Subject: Re: Attributed Strings, NSTextField, and NSTextView
  • From: Aki Inoue <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:43:35 -0700

Refer to -[NSCell allowsEditingTextAttributes].

Aki

I've been investigating Attributed Strings, and how they work with NSTextField and NSTextView, and I've got some questions I hope someone can answer.

I want to have an attributed string in a text field, or at least something that looks like a text field. I want to do something that looks like syntax coloring on the input, so that certain parts of the string are different colors. Now, I can put an attributed string into a text field, and it looks like it supports rich text, but it also looks like I can only set attributes for the entire string, not parts of it. Is this correct?

I'm thinking that I might be able to use a text field, or a sub- class of a text field with a custom formatter to achieve what I want. The other alternative is to sub-class a text view, and make it behave as much like a text field as possible. NSTextView seems a lot 'heavier' though, so I'm not sure if this is a good idea.

As anyone tried anything like this in the past, and does anyone have any suggestions on how to proceed with this?

Thanks in advance,

Iain
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