Struggling with NSTextView in a custom view

FROM : Koen van der Drift
DATE : Sat Jan 25 17:24:27 2003

Hi,

I am struggling to get an NSTextView into a custom view, and would
appreciate any help. Basically what I want is a view which has two
textviews, each with their own text container and layoutmanager, but which
share the textstorage.

So, based on chapter 12 in Hillegass' book, I created a customview. If I
use his code in drawRect, it just works fine, so I assume the view is set
up correctly.


Now I would like to add an NSTextView to it, and I am following the Cocoa
docs from Apple, 'Creating an NSTextView programmatically'. In the custom
view's initWithFrame, I do the following:

- (id)initWithFrame:(NSRect)frameRect
{
    if ( [super initWithFrame:frameRect] )
    {
        NSWindow    *aWindow = [self window];

        NSRect        cFrame = [[aWindow contentView] frame];
        NSTextView    *textView = [[NSTextView alloc] initWithFrame:cFrame];

       [aWindow setContentView:textView];
   [aWindow makeKeyAndOrderFront:nil];
   [aWindow makeFirstResponder:textView];

   [textView setString:@"test"];
        [textView release];
    }
    return self;
}


However, the view is empty, with the striped background. If I step through
the code, I noticed that [self window] at this point returns nil, so that
might be a problem.


Any suggestions how to make this work?


thanks,


- Koen.
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