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> On Apr 26, 2016, at 3:25 AM, Dave <d...@looktowindward.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I’ve tried loads of different way of doing it but none of them work. Maybe
> its because I’m not using Auto-Layout, maybe its just impossible using an
> NSScrollView/NSTextView. In fact, since there isn’t a handy-dandy method or
> property on any of the classes in question to just do it, I’m beginning to
> think that’s the case.
>
> Apple’s documentation is so bad that I can’t find anything related to it and
> I must have wasted around 2 hours fiddling with this. Still I have lots of
> lovely animations in XCode to make up for it so all is not lost! I’m giving
> up and it’s too much of a time-sync to muck around with it as I have more
> pressing things that need doing.
>
> Thanks a lot for for taking the time to help.
>
> All the Best
> Dave
>
>
>> On 26 Apr 2016, at 10:00, Bill Cheeseman <wjcheese...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Graham Cox is right.
>>
>> I realized overnight that I was misinterpreting your question. I happen to
>> be working on truncation of text myself, and I was focused on the usual
>> meaning of "truncation" in the attributed string context. It means placing
>> three periods at the end or in the middle of truncated lines of text.
>>
>> What you are trying to do, as I now understand it, is to keep the original
>> line breaks of the text in place, without "wrapping," even though the text
>> view or window is made narrower. In other words, your text view will act
>> like a peephole into a bigger page. That is what NSTextContainer is for. I
>> think the references I gave to you for text handling in general will lead
>> you to the relevant documentation.
>>
>> From the NSTextContainer reference document:
>>
>> "The NSTextContainer class defines a region where text is laid out. An
>> NSLayoutManager
>> <https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSLayoutManager_Class/index.html#//apple_ref/occ/cl/NSLayoutManager>
>> uses NSTextContainer to determine where to break lines, lay out portions of
>> text, and so on. An NSTextContainerobject normally defines rectangular
>> regions, but you can define exclusion paths inside the text container to
>> create regions where text does not flow. You can also subclass to create
>> text containers with nonrectangular regions, such as circular regions,
>> regions with holes in them, or regions that flow alongside graphics."
>>
>> Since you're in a very speed-sensitive environment, you will also be
>> interested in the paragraph that follows that quoted text, about using
>> threads.
>>
>>> On Apr 25, 2016, at 11:34 AM, Dave <d...@looktowindward.com
>>> <mailto:d...@looktowindward.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I’m familiar with NSAttributedString and friends. I had thought that there
>>> was a higher level interface to it as it seems like a common thing to want
>>> to do.
>>>
>>> Basically my ScrollView is just a scrolling line log similar to XCode’s
>>> NSLog window.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Bill Cheeseman - wjcheese...@comcast.net <mailto:wjcheese...@comcast.net>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Bill Cheeseman - wjcheese...@comcast.net
>>
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