Re: current font

FROM : Douglas Davidson
DATE : Mon Apr 04 17:40:56 2005

On Apr 3, 2005, at 12:27 PM, Roland Silver wrote:

> In my program, the cursor is positioned between two characters in a 
> text view. How can I determine the current font?
>


You need to figure out what it is that you mean by the "current 
font".  NSTextView uses what are called typing attributes to 
determine the font and other attributes for the next character typed; 
you can call -typingAttributes to examine these, or -
setTypingAttributes: to change them, or you can listen for 
NSTextViewDidChangeTypingAttributesNotification to be informed when 
they change.  Ordinarily the text view will set the typing attributes 
as appropriate when the selection changes, but there is no necessary 
connection between the attributes of the text and the typing 
attributes--for example, if you have a zero-length selection and pick 
a font from the font panel, or hit cmd-B for bold, then the typing 
attributes will change although nothing in the text changes.  If you 
want to determine the attributes of a character in the text, just 
examine the attributes of the NSTextStorage--remember that 
NSTextStorage is a direct subclass of NSMutableAttributedString.

Douglas Davidson