Hi, I am currently working on a document reader and annotation program. This program will allow the user to import text files and annotate them, both in the margins and by attaching annotations to specific words. As the cursor is hovered over a word, its annotation will appear in some sort of coloured 'bubble' beside it. I will have a custom file format to store the locations of these annotations in relation to the text file.
I am fairly new to Cocoa and I am not sure about how to implement my annotations. I do not want to use PDF because most of the imported documents will only be in text format, for example works from Project Gutenberg. I have done some searching and the closest I have come to a solution is NSTextAttachment, but this inserts an object into the flow of the text and changes the line height of the text for example. I am thinking that I will have to somehow subclass NSTextView and do some custom drawing. Is this the right way to go about it? How should I write this feature? Any advice is much appreciated. Thank you, -- Isaac _______________________________________________ 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 arch...@mail-archive.com
