[MacRuby-devel] Is this the right list?

Timothy McDowell tmcdowell at gmail.com
Mon Jan 12 15:46:00 PST 2009


Y'know what, that doesn't seem to work actually. No '<<' method, and
setCharacters/setWords works, but nothing shows up.

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Timothy McDowell <tmcdowell at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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