I want to toggle rich text formatting in NSTextView. I have tried following:
[contentView setRichText:NO];
[contentView setImportsGraphics:NO];
but, that didn't changed the NSTextView content and still allowing to do the text formatting.
Please let me know the simple way to toggle/switch rich text formatting in NSTextView just like TextEdit.
I already check the "TextEdit" sample project, but it seems to be very hard to find the usable code from it.
Thanks
I have created category for my view controller as follows:
#define TabWidth @"TabWidth"
@interface MyViewController (Helper)
- (NSDictionary *)defaultTextAttributes:(BOOL)forRichText;
- (void)removeAttachments;
- (void)setRichText:(BOOL)flag;
@end
@implementation MyViewController (Helper)
- (NSDictionary *)defaultTextAttributes:(BOOL)forRichText {
static NSParagraphStyle *defaultRichParaStyle = nil;
NSMutableDictionary *textAttributes = [[[NSMutableDictionary alloc] initWithCapacity:2] autorelease];
if (forRichText) {
[textAttributes setObject:[NSFont userFontOfSize:0.0] forKey:NSFontAttributeName];
if (defaultRichParaStyle == nil) { // We do this once...
NSInteger cnt;
NSString *measurementUnits = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] objectForKey:@"AppleMeasurementUnits"];
CGFloat tabInterval = ([@"Centimeters" isEqual:measurementUnits]) ? (72.0 / 2.54) : (72.0 / 2.0); // Every cm or half inch
NSMutableParagraphStyle *paraStyle = [[[NSMutableParagraphStyle alloc] init] autorelease];
[paraStyle setTabStops:[NSArray array]]; // This first clears all tab stops
for (cnt = 0; cnt < 12; cnt++) { // Add 12 tab stops, at desired intervals...
NSTextTab *tabStop = [[NSTextTab alloc] initWithType:NSLeftTabStopType location:tabInterval * (cnt + 1)];
[paraStyle addTabStop:tabStop];
[tabStop release];
}
defaultRichParaStyle = [paraStyle copy];
}
[textAttributes setObject:defaultRichParaStyle forKey:NSParagraphStyleAttributeName];
} else {
NSFont *plainFont = [NSFont userFixedPitchFontOfSize:0.0];
NSInteger tabWidth = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] integerForKey:TabWidth];
CGFloat charWidth = [@" " sizeWithAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:plainFont forKey:NSFontAttributeName]].width;
if (charWidth == 0) charWidth = [[plainFont screenFontWithRenderingMode:NSFontDefaultRenderingMode] maximumAdvancement].width;
// Now use a default paragraph style, but with the tab width adjusted
NSMutableParagraphStyle *mStyle = [[[NSParagraphStyle defaultParagraphStyle] mutableCopy] autorelease];
[mStyle setTabStops:[NSArray array]];
[mStyle setDefaultTabInterval:(charWidth * tabWidth)];
[textAttributes setObject:[[mStyle copy] autorelease] forKey:NSParagraphStyleAttributeName];
// Also set the font
[textAttributes setObject:plainFont forKey:NSFontAttributeName];
}
return textAttributes;
}
/* Used when converting to plain text
*/
- (void)removeAttachments {
NSTextStorage *attrString = [contentView textStorage];
NSUInteger loc = 0;
NSUInteger end = [attrString length];
[attrString beginEditing];
while (loc < end) { /* Run through the string in terms of attachment runs */
NSRange attachmentRange; /* Attachment attribute run */
NSTextAttachment *attachment = [attrString attribute:NSAttachmentAttributeName atIndex:loc longestEffectiveRange:&attachmentRange inRange:NSMakeRange(loc, end-loc)];
if (attachment) { /* If there is an attachment and it is on an attachment character, remove the character */
unichar ch = [[attrString string] characterAtIndex:loc];
if (ch == NSAttachmentCharacter) {
if ([contentView shouldChangeTextInRange:NSMakeRange(loc, 1) replacementString:@""]) {
[attrString replaceCharactersInRange:NSMakeRange(loc, 1) withString:@""];
[contentView didChangeText];
}
end = [attrString length]; /* New length */
}
else loc++; /* Just skip over the current character... */
}
else loc = NSMaxRange(attachmentRange);
}
[attrString endEditing];
}
- (void)setRichText:(BOOL)flag {
NSDictionary *textAttributes;
BOOL isRichText = flag;
if (!isRichText) [self removeAttachments];
[contentView setRichText:isRichText];
[contentView setUsesRuler:isRichText]; /* If NO, this correctly gets rid
of the ruler if it was up */
if (isRichText && NO)
[contentView setRulerVisible:YES]; /* Show ruler if rich, and desired */
[contentView setImportsGraphics:isRichText];
textAttributes = [self defaultTextAttributes:isRichText];
if ([[contentView textStorage] length]) {
[[contentView textStorage] setAttributes:textAttributes range: NSMakeRange(0,[[contentView textStorage] length])];
}
[contentView setTypingAttributes:textAttributes];
}
@end
Where contentView is IBOutlet of NSTextView. Hope this will help someone or let me know if someone has shorter method.
Thanks