I had a problem with NSTextView refusing to use the text attributes I assigned
to it. Here's my workaround in case anyone else runs into the same problem.
I configured an NSTextView in IB with a custom text color, a bit of dummy text
with a custom font, and rich text turned off (i.e., it's plain text). The
problem was that when the user deletes all the text, the text view reverts to
black Helvetica 12.
I googled "empty NSTextView site:cocoabuilder.com" and found some people had
solved similar problems by writing a delegate method that futzes with the text
view's typingAttributes. I was about to try that but noticed my text view's
typingAttributes was nil. (The difference may be that the other people who had
problems were using rich-text text views.)
After a bunch of trial and error I got it to work by temporarily changing the
rich-text flag to YES and selecting some non-empty text:
[myTextView setRichText:YES];
[myTextView selectAll:nil]; // make sure text is non-empty
//NSLog(@"typing attributes: %@", [myTextView
typingAttributes]);
[myTextView setRichText:NO];
It seems this forces the text view to set its typingAttributes, which it then
dutifully applies in all subsequent editing.
I'll file a Radar when I get home, but I'm posting here now in case someone can
tell me it's a known issue and/or I'm Doing It Wrong. I have a vague feeling
I'm missing something obvious.
Well, I'm also posting so I can paste a URL to this thread in my code comments.
:)
--Andy
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