Re: What is the preferred way to set NSTextView content from NSAttributedString?

Yes, working through the NSTextStorage is the way to go. To replace its entire contents you can use -replaceCharactersInRange:withAttributedString: with a range that encompasses all

Re: What is the preferred way to set NSTextView content from NSAttributedString?

Looking at the documentation for NSTextView, it is highly recommended that you manipulate the NSTextStorage associated with the view. NSTextStorage is a sub-class of NSMutableAttributedtString, so you have all of those capabilities as well. I’m just getting into this as well for my console

Re: What is the preferred way to set NSTextView content from NSAttributedString?

> - I want to set the displayed contents of V to T2. > > What is/are the recommended way/s to do this? > > *I would hope that I could assign V.attributedString = T2, but alas the > world does not seem to be this simple.* The documentation suggests you should be working with the view’s

RE: What is the preferred way to set NSTextView content from NSAttributedString?

Did you tell V that it needs to re-load it’s display? There is a method on NSView (from which NSTextView is derived) called “needsDisplay(sic)” which sets a flag on the view so that the view will re-draw its content the next display cycle. So, after you set the content to T2, you need to call