Re: Reading text attachments from pasteboard into NSTextView

FROM : Douglas Davidson
DATE : Thu Jan 24 03:00:04 2008

On Jan 23, 2008, at 7:33 AM, Kai Brüning wrote:

> NSTextView seems to have broad support for copying text attachments 
> to pasteboards in whatever custom format is desired:
>     - textView:writablePasteboardTypesForCell:atIndex:  delegate method
>     - textView:writeCell:atIndex:toPasteboard:type:  delegate method
>
> But I can't find similar support for reading from a pasteboard. From 
> what I have seen, the only method seems to be to put an attributed 
> string with the text attachment(s) in it on the pastboard. While 
> this is possible, I would rather like to convert some custom format 
> into a text attachment the moment it is read from the pasteboard.


You would do this with the standard mechanisms for extending 
NSTextView pasteboard reading--see the header file comments on 
"Pasteboard support", notably for -readablePasteboardTypes and -
readSelectionFromPasteboard:type:.

Douglas Davidson