Re: Clearing an NSTextView

FROM : Jeremy
DATE : Sun Feb 24 21:34:58 2008

IS,

Thanks for the setString:. I believe I tried that before and it didn't 
work. It is now working as intended.

Jeremy
"For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading 
edge, could be so useless, and then it occurred to me that a computer 
is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, 
while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do 
incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match." - Bill 
Bryson


On Feb 24, 2008, at 3:30 PM, I. Savant wrote:

>> I knew insertText: wouldn't remove the text. I just can't figure 
>> out how to remove it all.

>
>  Did you read my previous e-mail? See also the e-mail from Gary. The 
> approach you take depends on whether you're using any attributes 
> (formatting). If it's all the same font/size/etc. then setString: 
> will do just fine ... just set it to:
>
>  @"";
>
>  ... and it's empty.
>

>> And how do I select all of characters? That would be my only 
>> problem with the replaceCharactersInRange:withString:...

>
>  -setSelectedRange:?
>
> --
> I.S.
>
>
>
> On Feb 24, 2008, at 3:23 PM, Jeremy wrote:
>

>> I.S.,
>>
>> I knew insertText: wouldn't remove the text. I just can't figure 
>> out how to remove it all. And how do I select all of characters? 
>> That would be my only problem with the 
>> replaceCharactersInRange:withString:...
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jeremy
>> "For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so 
>> leading edge, could be so useless, and then it occurred to me that 
>> a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly 
>> smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the 
>> ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a 
>> perfect match." - Bill Bryson
>>
>>
>> On Feb 24, 2008, at 3:20 PM, I. Savant wrote:
>>

>>>> When I use [NSTextView insertText:@"Lyrics Code Here"];, it 
>>>> doesn't delete the current text so that is it is replaced for the 
>>>> user...

>>>
>>>
>>> Why would you believe "insert" means anything but? If you read the 
>>> documentation on the text system, you'll get a better idea of 
>>> where to look for more answers.
>>>
>>> You can ask the text view for its NSTextStorage (which is a 
>>> subclass of NSMutableAttributedString) and replace the contents 
>>> with -replaceCharactersInRange:withString: or -
>>> replaceCharactersInRange:withAttributedString:
>>>
>>> --
>>> I.S.
>>>
>>>

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