Re: Forcing Black on RTF Text generated from NSAttributedString

FROM : R. Scott Thompson
DATE : Thu Dec 09 20:46:00 2004

> I haven't tested this, but you could try using an NSColor that is not
> equal to [NSColor blackColor], but whose RGB components are 0.  I
> believe it is sufficient to use
> colorWithCalibratedRed:green:blue:alpha: but if necessary you could
> use a custom NSColor subclass.


BAH!!! I found a bug in my test code.  It turns out that this DOES
work, (using a separate instance of black created with
colorWithCalibratedRed...).

As it turns out, however, if you then round-trip that same code through
RTF (that is, you generate an RTF from it, and then generate a string
from the RTF) you loose all the lovely work you did in applying your
own black to the ranges.

That is what I would expect to happen... it's not what I want to happen
in this particular case... but it seems like the Right Thing™ to do.

Scott