FROM : Daryn
DATE : Thu Nov 28 00:45:12 2002
On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 03:06 PM, Douglas Davidson wrote:
> If you really don't care what font is used, you can do what you are
> doing, i.e. never specify a font and let the text view figure one out
> for itself. If you do care, then set the font yourself, either via
> the NSTextView, by calling setTypingAttributes: or setFont:, or else
> by operating on the NSTextStorage and setting a font attribute there.
If the strings being appended are attributed strings, using these
messages to force a font cause the existing front traits such as
boldness to be lost as well (last I checked).
> Multiple fonts not allowed merely means that the user is not allowed
> to set multiple fonts. Programmatic changes are a different matter.
How would one go about preventing programatic changes? What part of
the text system does the automatic font substitution? Essentially what
method(s) can be overridden to lock in a font?
Daryn
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DATE : Thu Nov 28 00:45:12 2002
On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 03:06 PM, Douglas Davidson wrote:
> If you really don't care what font is used, you can do what you are
> doing, i.e. never specify a font and let the text view figure one out
> for itself. If you do care, then set the font yourself, either via
> the NSTextView, by calling setTypingAttributes: or setFont:, or else
> by operating on the NSTextStorage and setting a font attribute there.
If the strings being appended are attributed strings, using these
messages to force a font cause the existing front traits such as
boldness to be lost as well (last I checked).
> Multiple fonts not allowed merely means that the user is not allowed
> to set multiple fonts. Programmatic changes are a different matter.
How would one go about preventing programatic changes? What part of
the text system does the automatic font substitution? Essentially what
method(s) can be overridden to lock in a font?
Daryn
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| Related mails | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Chris Ridd | Nov 27, 21:46 | |
| Scott Anguish | Nov 27, 21:56 | |
| Douglas Davidson | Nov 27, 22:06 | |
| Daryn | Nov 28, 00:45 | |
| Douglas Davidson | Nov 28, 00:57 | |
| Chris Ridd | Nov 28, 10:45 |






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