Haven't anyone stumbled upon something similar, or a solution to this? Best regards Mattias
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mattias Arrelid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, May 30, 2008 at 1:25 PM Subject: NSTextView and changing the selected text's color To: cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com Hi everyone, We have a subclass of NSTextView (SPTextView). A couple of these have some text with [NSColor grayColor] set as the NSForegroundColorAttributeName. It looks good, but when the user starts selecting text things go bad ™. Since grey on light blue (the default system selection color) isn't very readable one could argue that we should change the selection color. That is pretty straight forward, but we'd rather not mess with this since the user might have her own highlight color set (through System Preferences / Appearance). The next approach would be to use NSTextView's setMarkedTextAttributes:. It takes a dictionary as paramater, with the following restrictions (according to the documentation): "A dictionary of attributes used to draw marked text. Text color, background color, and underline are the only supported attributes for marked text.". Regardless of how I try to specify these (I assume the attributes that are valid are NSForegroundColorAttributeName, NSBackgroundColorAttributeName, NSUnderlineColorAttributeName and NSUnderlineStyleAttributeName), that call doesn't affect the view. As a last resort, we could implement setSelectedRange:affinity:stillSelecting: in our NSTextView subclass, and set the foreground color of the selected range... but that would mean that we would have to change it back to whatever color it had before the selection took place. That doesn't feel right. Reading http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/TextEditing/Tasks/SetFocus.html indicates that setMarkedTextAttributes: should do just this, but I cannot seem to get it working. Any suggestions? Best regards Mattias _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
