Re: output string like a teleprinter (NSTextView)

2015-12-18 Thread Graham Cox
> On 18 Dec 2015, at 8:37 PM, sqwarqDev wrote: > > I’m pretty sure I didn’t use a timer (see below). > I wasn’t really trying to second-guess how you might have done this in the past; more, I was suggesting how you could do it without having “discovered” this effect previously. It definitel

Re: output string like a teleprinter (NSTextView)

2015-12-18 Thread sqwarqDev
> On 18 Dec 2015, at 06:34, Graham Cox wrote: > > If it happened accidentally it was most likely due to setting up a situation > that caused extreme low performance No, it wasn’t. > You could just gradually add characters from the original string to a > ‘display’ string using a timer and

Re: output string like a teleprinter (NSTextView)

2015-12-17 Thread Graham Cox
> On 18 Dec 2015, at 1:49 AM, sqwarqDev wrote: > > A couple of years ago I was messing around with NSTextView and NSTextStorage > and accidentally ended up with a method that printed my string (could have > been attributed string) to my textview one character at a time, rather like > an old