Re: setFont

FROM : Douglas Davidson
DATE : Mon Apr 25 22:37:48 2005

On Apr 25, 2005, at 1:30 PM, Roland Silver wrote:

> how do I output a message to an NSTextView in a progammatically 
> specified font? setFont is a method of
> NSActionCell ← NSCell ← NSObject,
> but
> NSTextView ← NSView ← NSResponder ← NSObject,
> so an NSTextView and an NSActionCell have no closer ancestor than 
> NSObject.
>


Both your attributions and your hierarchies are missing something. 
setFont: is also a method of NSText, the immediate superclass of 
NSTextView.  There are also other relevant methods like 
setFont:range:; for more control, remember that the text is stored in 
an NSTextStorage, which is a subclass of NSMutableAttributedString.

Douglas Davidson