I would like to be able to control what is displayed in a UITextView when the text contains a "tab" character. (I conjecture that if there is a mechanism to do that, it might be common to both UITextView and NSTextView, so if anyone knows anything about the latter, please speak up.)
More specifically: Testing suggests that when there are tab characters in a text string being displayed in a UITextView, the system behaves as if "tab stops" were set every eight characters; that is, the next character after a tab is displayed at the next horizontal position that would correspond to it being preceded by a number of blank spaces that is a multiple of eight. Is there a way to make that position be a multiple of something other than eight? I do not need the full generality of completely adjustable tab stops, I just want to be able to change "eight" to another value. My work-around is to watch text as it is typed or pasted into the view and deal with tabs there, on my own, or I suppose that if I were a dedicated masochist I could in principle override a "draw" method somewhere, but it would be easier to use a built-in mechanism if there is one. I posted a query about this in the forums, and I have of course googled the usual suspects. Thanks. -- Jay Reynolds Freeman --------------------- jay_reynolds_free...@mac.com http://web.mac.com/jay_reynolds_freeman (personal web site) _______________________________________________ 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 arch...@mail-archive.com
