On Jun 29, 2008, at 1:58 PM, Papa-Raboon wrote:
Hi Kyle and thanks for responding. I am not sure what part of the documentation you refer to when you say cocoa text system but I started reading about NSTextView and NSText and to be honest until I get more familiar with cocoa and everything clicks into place the documentation seems very confusing and tends to assume previous programming knowledge and a good understanding of the nuances of this sort of code. I have dabbled with other languages but the only language I managed to get a good understanding of was PHP. Cocoa seems a lot more disciplined in it's structure to me than PHP which is very forgiving indeed. So at the moment people have been kindly telling me what to do to achieve each little bit of my project that I don't understand and I have been figuring out bits myself along the way. this method seems to work best for me as I have started to figure out more and more without help. So I think I understand what you mean about not using NSString with an NSTextView but if you fancy throwing together a couple of lines of code so I can see visually how it's done then I think I will have a better chance of understanding it eventually. If you don't have time to then I understand totally. I am sure newbies like me can be a little demanding at times :-) Thanks Paul
If you look in the upper left corner of the NSTextView or NSText documentation page you will see a box labeled "NSText[View] Class Reference", at the bottom of that box is a section labeled "Companion Guide" and in there is a link to Text System Overview, which is the doc that Kyle is referring to. You should probably read most of it, but especially read the "Building a Text Editor in 15 Minutes" chapter which has sample code that should do what you need or at least get you in the right direction.
If you are just learning Cocoa then you should really start with the Cocoa Fundamentals Guide:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CocoaFundamentals/Introduction/chapter_1_section_1.html or a Cocoa programming book. --Nathan _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
