Yes, it seems I was mistaken. I also made a test app and can't reproduce the problem. So it must be something else I'm doing with the textview that stops the continuous spell checking from working.
Oh well, more digging to do. Thanks for confirming! Martin On 2, Jan, 2012, at 08:07 PM, Seth Willits wrote: > On Jan 2, 2012, at 10:20 AM, Martin Hewitson wrote: > >> [[self layoutManager] >> removeTemporaryAttribute:NSBackgroundColorAttributeName >> forCharacterRange:visibleRange]; >> >> This has the unfortunate side-effect of removing the red squiggly lines >> which indicate misspelled words. > > > Hmm. Works fine here. > > > - (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(NSNotification *)aNotification > { > [textView setString:@"Hello this is a reallly good day to be alive."]; > [[textView layoutManager] > addTemporaryAttribute:NSBackgroundColorAttributeName value:[NSColor > yellowColor] forCharacterRange:NSMakeRange(6, 4)]; > [[textView layoutManager] > addTemporaryAttribute:NSBackgroundColorAttributeName value:[NSColor > yellowColor] forCharacterRange:NSMakeRange(16, 7)]; > [textView checkTextInDocument:nil]; > } > > > - (IBAction)action:(id)sender; > { > [[textView layoutManager] > removeTemporaryAttribute:NSBackgroundColorAttributeName > forCharacterRange:NSMakeRange(0, textView.string.length)]; > } > > > > -- > Seth Willits_______________________________________________ > > 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/martin.hewitson%40aei.mpg.de > > This email sent to martin.hewit...@aei.mpg.de ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Martin Hewitson Albert-Einstein-Institut Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik und Universitaet Hannover Callinstr. 38, 30167 Hannover, Germany Tel: +49-511-762-17121, Fax: +49-511-762-5861 E-Mail: martin.hewit...@aei.mpg.de WWW: http://www.aei.mpg.de/~hewitson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ 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