Re: How to insert a "screen-only" character in an NSTextView?
Re: How to insert a "screen-only" character in an NSTextView?
- Subject: Re: How to insert a "screen-only" character in an NSTextView?
- From: Ross Carter <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:55:26 -0400
Or a custom NSGlyphGenerator. There was a WWDC session on this a few years back.
On Aug 31, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Kyle Sluder <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012, at 08:24 AM, Koen van der Drift wrote:
>> Is it possible to insert character/glyphs in an NSTextView without
>> changing the underlying NSTextStorage ? The goal is to have some
>> special characters (eg a hyphen) at specific places in the string that
>> is displayed in the view. So when the data is saved, the special
>> characters are not part of it.
>
> Glyphs aren't part of the text storage. So you would create a custom
> typesetter, hook it up to the layout manager of the text view you use
> for on-screen drawing, and have it generate additional glyphs.
>
> --Kyle Sluder
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