Re: setting tab stops in a document

2010-06-07 Thread Boyd Collier
Paul, You're quite right. I commented out the call to shouldChangeTextInRange: and my code still does what I want. Thanks for pointing this out. I'll have a look at the documentation on methods for bracketing multiple changes to the text (after I get my head around efficiently creating trian

Re: setting tab stops in a document

2010-06-07 Thread Paul Sanders
> /** ADDED CODE **/ > NSMutableDictionary* typingAttributes = [[myTextView typingAttributes] > mutableCopy]; > [typingAttributes setObject:paraStyle forKey:NSParagraphStyleAttributeName]; > [myTextView setTypingAttributes:typingAttributes]; > NSRange rangeOfChange = NSMakeRange(0, [[myTextView st

Re: setting tab stops in a document

2010-06-05 Thread Paul Sanders
> When my application opens a text file, the insertion point is blinking > immediately after the last character on the last line. If I then hit the tab > key, the insertion point moves over the correct distance. However, if I hit > the return key when the file is first opened, the insertion po

Re: setting tab stops in a document

2010-06-05 Thread Boyd Collier
Thanks, Ross and Paul, I've finally got things working the way I wanted. Here's what my code now looks like (in case someone else has a similar problem): - (void)updateView { [[self textView] setString:[self string]]; // replaced textView with [self textView] 6-8-06 NSText

Re: setting tab stops in a document

2010-06-05 Thread Ross Carter
On Jun 5, 2010, at 1:09 AM, Boyd Collier wrote: > In an application I'm working on, I read in plain text files containing data > to be analyzed. This uses a slightly-modified version of MyDocument.m that > is produced as a result of starting a project with the template for > NSDocument archite

setting tab stops in a document

2010-06-04 Thread Boyd Collier
In an application I'm working on, I read in plain text files containing data to be analyzed. This uses a slightly-modified version of MyDocument.m that is produced as a result of starting a project with the template for NSDocument architecture. The modification that I made was to add a method