Re: NSString of selected text in NSTextView
Re: NSString of selected text in NSTextView
- Subject: Re: NSString of selected text in NSTextView
- From: Douglas Davidson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:26:28 -0800
NSTextView will generally make sure that the selection is a reasonable
range. One complication is that in general NSTextView supports
multiple discontiguous selected ranges. If such a selection is in use
then just calling -selectedRange will not capture all of it. If there
are attachments in the text, they will appear as replacement
characters in the string. I don't think that's really a reason to do
such a convoluted thing as getting out RTF and converting it back to
text. Better generally to deal with the text content as a string (-
string) or attributed string (-textStorage).
Douglas Davidson
On Nov 7, 2009, at 6:06 PM, Kyle Sluder <email@hidden> wrote:
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Todd Heberlein
<email@hidden> wrote:
This seems like a simple task, but it has become a series of steps.
Am I
missing a simple method that will do this?
[[myTextView string] substringWithRange:[myTextView selectedRange];
(Warning, composed in Mail. Potential thorny issues with text
attachment characters, surrogate pairs, composed characters, marked
text… "the selected text" isn't as simple of a concept as it may
seem.)
--Kyle Sluder
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