I am struggling with a puzzling problem involving an NSTextView and the Favorites list in the NSFontPanel. I'm hoping someone on the list has seen something like this before and/or can offer any pointers.
My program is a document-based application with a main document window that includes an NSTextView. [Technically it is a subclass of NSTextView, but I have substituted an actual NSTextView without changing the behavior.] I load some rich text from an RTF file into my NSTextView, and select some text whose font has the bold or underlined trait (e.g., Helvetica-Bold). I open the font panel and click on a style from the Favorites list (e.g. Impact). If I do this, the style of the text in the NSTextView does *not* appear to change. If, however, I initially select text that does *not* have the bold or underlined trait (e.g., plain Helvetica), the selected style *is* correctly applied to my text as well. If I perform the same steps in TextEdit, it behaves as I expect: the text font is replaced by the selected style from the font panel, regardless of the original font of the text. I used some method swizzling to break into the changeFont: method of the text view and insert some additional debugging code. I am able to get the selected text's NSFont and send it directly to the NSFontManager's convertFont: method. If the selected text's NSFont is Helvetica-Bold, I get Helvetica-Bold back; if it is plain Helvetica, I get Impact back. If I manually strip the bold trait from the Helvetica-Bold font, giving me a plain Helvetica, and send *that* to the NSFontManager, I still get Helvetica-Bold back. I see analogous behavior if I select italic text, in that I get Helvetica-Oblique back from the NSFontManager. I also see the same thing if I send the font to the font panel for conversion (via panelConvertFont:). It is as if I'm getting back the font panel's represention of the currently selected font in my text, instead of the font I click in the Favorites list -- but only if that font has a bold or italic trait. Finally, selecting an item from the Recently Used list produces the same anamolous behavior as the Favorites list. I am at a loss to explain this. Clearly there must be some difference in the context of my program, compared to TextEdit, but I have been unable to determine what that is. I inherited this code base from another developer, and there are some oddities in the coding style, but I have not found anything relating to the font panel or text system that would explain this difference in behavior. (My program is normally built against the 10.3.9 SDK, but changing it to the 10.5 SDK to match TextEdit does not alter the behavior either.) Has anyone seen this kind of behavior before, or has any kind of insight into where I might look? I'm running out of ideas and any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks -- Russell _______________________________________________ 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]
