Character Map

• Ian was here Character Map Apr 08 2010, 01:28
  Does anyone know to programmatically bring up the special characters panel that TextEdit shows when you select the "Special Characters..." item in the Edit menu?
• Jens Alfke Re: Character Map Apr 08 2010, 01:50
  On Apr 7, 2010, at 4:28 PM, Ian was here wrote:
  
  

  > Does anyone know to programmatically bring up the special characters
  > panel that TextEdit shows when you select the "Special
  > Characters..." item in the Edit menu?
  

  
  There's a menu item for it in the Edit menu, in any new app's nib.
  Take a look at what that item is wired up to.
  
  —Jens
• Graham Cox Re: Character Map Apr 08 2010, 01:57
  On 08/04/2010, at 9:50 AM, Jens Alfke wrote:
  
  

  >> Does anyone know to programmatically bring up the special characters panel that TextEdit shows when you select the "Special Characters..." item in the Edit menu?
  >
  > There's a menu item for it in the Edit menu, in any new app's nib. Take a look at what that item is wired up to.
  

  
  The item is added dynamically when the app is run, so to find its action/target will require a little bit of code to flush it out at runtime.
  
  --Graham
• Greg Guerin Re: Character Map Apr 08 2010, 02:33
  Ian was here wrote:
  
  

  > Does anyone know to programmatically bring up the special
  > characters panel that TextEdit shows when you select the "Special
  > Characters..." item in the Edit menu?
  

  
  Paste into Terminal:
  
  open -a CharPaletteServer
  
  Should be able to work out the rest from that.
  
    -- GG
• David Duncan Re: Character Map Apr 08 2010, 02:40
  On Apr 7, 2010, at 4:28 PM, Ian was here wrote:
  
  

  > Does anyone know to programmatically bring up the special characters panel that TextEdit shows when you select the "Special Characters..." item in the Edit menu?
  

  
  [[NSApplication sharedApplication] orderFrontCharacterPalette:nil];
  --
  David Duncan
  Apple DTS Animation and Printing
• Ian was here Re: Character Map Apr 08 2010, 04:43
  Beautiful! Thanks.
  
  --- On Wed, 4/7/10, David Duncan <david.duncan...> wrote:
  
  From: David Duncan <david.duncan...>
  Subject: Re: Character Map
  To: "Ian was here" <howlewere...>
  Cc: "Apple Developer Mailing List" <cocoa-dev...>
  Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 5:40 PM
  
  On Apr 7, 2010, at 4:28 PM, Ian was here wrote:
  Does anyone know to programmatically bring up the special characters panel that TextEdit shows when you select the "Special Characters..." item in the Edit menu?
  
  [[NSApplication sharedApplication] orderFrontCharacterPalette:nil];
  
  --David DuncanApple DTS Animation and Printing