Re: setting tab stops in a document
Re: setting tab stops in a document
- Subject: Re: setting tab stops in a document
- From: Ross Carter <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:16:48 -0400
On Jun 5, 2010, at 1:09 AM, Boyd Collier wrote:
> In an application I'm working on, I read in plain text files containing data to be analyzed. This uses a slightly-modified version of MyDocument.m that is produced as a result of starting a project with the template for NSDocument architecture. The modification that I made was to add a method named updateView, which is called near the end of windowControllerDidLoadNib and loadDataRepresentation: ofType:
>
> My reason for adding this method is to make the spacing of tabs something that works well for the sort of data files being analyzed, which presume tabs are used to separate values being analyzed. Here's the code:
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> [[textView textStorage] addAttributes:attrs range:NSMakeRange(0, [[[textView textStorage] string] length])];
Couple of suggestions:
1. Call NSTextView -shouldChangeTextInRange:replacementString: before modifying the textStorage, and call -didChangeText afterward.
2. Look at NSTextView -setDefaultParagraphStyle:.
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