[MacRuby-devel] Is this the right list?

[Timothy McDowell]

Haha, I scoured that documentation for an hour! Thanks a bunch. ^_^

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Vincent Isambart <
vincent.isambart at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>  :textview is linked to an NSTextView object via InterfaceBuilder. Now the
>> purpose of this view is to work as the display for text coming from a MUD
>> (Multi-user domain/dungeon). I have it set to noneditable but selectable. My
>> above code doesn't work. I allow it to be editable, and the code does work.
>> Is there a way to prevent user-editing but to allow my code to edit it?
>>
>
> Extract from Apple's Objective-C insertText: documentation:
> This method is the entry point for inserting text typed by the user and is
> generally not suitable for other purposes. Programmatic modification of the
> text is best done by operating on the text storage directly. Because this
> method pertains to the actions of the user, the text view must be editable
> for the insertion to work.
>
> You can do for instance
> @text_view.textStorage << 'my text'
> But be careful, text inserted like this ignores the current font attributes
> of the text view. You have to add them yourself.
>
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-- Thanks,
--Zonbi.
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