I’m confused. If you select a NSTextView item in IB, then examine the Attributes Inspector, you’re presented with various options for setting text attributes, such as the font, size and color. In my clumsy hands, none of these work. The text entry always defaults to Helvetica 12.0 in standard black. Specifically for what I’m trying to accomplish, the text view always convert the quotation characters " " to “ ” when the user types in the text view, which totally messes up the functionality of my app. Turning on the Field Editor does stop the conversion, but then restricts me to a single cell/line. How do I stop this automatic re-formatting but retain the ability to enter line breaks?
I’d have thought that setting the default options for a text view was a fairly common need, yet searches have only pointed me to one or two posts that discuss this problem, the most useful (but still not detailed enough for my current understanding) goes back to 2006 here: http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/cocoa/160492-setting-the-default-font-of-an-nstextview.html So I’m now deep (have been for most of the day) into numerous Apple documentation items (always a frustrating experience, since they are inevitably heavy on describing the wonderous possibilities of Cocoa and referencing a thousand other “Don’t miss...” documents while depressingly light on demonstrative details. Still, I digress…). Undoubtedly both a rite of passage and a useful extension to my learning, but it seems bizarre to me that something as basic as setting the default font attributes in a text view and avoiding automatic conversions should require heavy coding. I could do this in C with a blindfold on, but in Cocoa, I feel like I’m in a galaxy-wide void with only half a candle to light my way. Any enlightenment hugely appreciated. Best Phil _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
