Re: hints for working with text

FROM : Saratchandra Kongara
DATE : Wed Dec 18 17:55:59 2002

I guess I will start looking at NSAttributedString,
NSMutableAttributedString and NSFont.
You can add a dictionary of attributes to ranges of text in
NSMutableAttributedString.

some attributes you can add
Attribute Name                            value type
NSFontAttributeName                    NSFont
NSForegroundColorAttributeName                    NSColor
NSUnderlineStyleAttributeName                        NSNumber
NSBackgroundAttributeName                NSColor

Also look at NSText.

Sarat
On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 11:23 AM, Sly Upah wrote:

> I am beginning to think about a project off in the future I may want to
> do. I want take a string of text with special sequences in them
> such as:
> this is normal @bold(make this bold) but this is not bold
> @italic(this is italics) @bold(this is bold)
> @color(red)this is red @color(blue)now we're blue
>
> and translate these to a displayable string in a Cocoa window.  The "@"
> indicates the action to take upon the string. I'm not concerned
> about how to parse the string, I can do that, the question is how
> to make an NSString do what I'm hoping for...color, bold, italics, etc
> One step farther is to utilize functions "@large" or "@small" which
> incr/decr font size...I'm guessing setFont could be used for this.
> I'm guessing setTextColor could be used for color. Perhaps setFont
> for bold and italics as well. OK, if I'm onto this, how do you take the
> string apart and recontruct it presuming I'm onto this? Do I utilize
> a string text replacement call?
>
> I'm wondering where to start, what to read. Any code or pointers to
> similar
> examples would be most appreciated.
> Happy Holidays,
> Sly
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