Re: Make an attributed string all uppercase without losing attributes?
Re: Make an attributed string all uppercase without losing attributes?
- Subject: Re: Make an attributed string all uppercase without losing attributes?
- From: Jim Correia <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 23:11:49 -0400
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Graham Cox <email@hidden> wrote:
> I have an attributed string. I want to preserve the attributes within the
> string but set all the actual characters to uppercase, lowercase, etc.
>
> According to the docs for NSMutableAttributedString, the -mutableString
> method returns a mutable string that the receiver tracks changes to in order
> to preserve attribute runs. However, when I call -setString: or
> -replaceCharactersInRange:withString: on this, all my attributes are
> removed.
>
> How can I do this without my attributes going AWOL?
The documentation for -[NSMutableString
replaceCharactersInRange:withString:] is perhaps more enlightening.
"""The new characters inherit the attributes of the first replaced
character from aRange"""
Processing the string by attribute runs sounds like it should have the
effect you are looking for.
Jim
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