On Nov 18, 2014, at 2:38 AM, Charles Jenkins <cejw...@gmail.com> wrote:

> It’s very easy to create an NSAttributedString that represents a text table, 
> then show the table in a TextView so the user can edit information in the 
> cells. The documentation on how to create a text table 
> (https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/TextLayout/Articles/TextTables.html)
>  is fairly clear.  
> 
> What I don’t see—and maybe it’s there but I just don’t understand it—is how 
> to pull the table apart again. Suppose I want to grab all text from the first 
> cell after the user has edited it. How do I do that?

-rangeOfTextBlock:atIndex: might be your best bet. The hard part is finding 
exactly "where" you are interested in. If you are only interested in where a 
user has edited, a delegate method may get you there, otherwise, I don't know. 
You may need to keep meta-data about constructed tables.

HTH,

Keary Suska
Esoteritech, Inc.



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