[iOliverC]

Hey guys,

This is what I want to achieve, if you open Mail, click Compose and put your cursor in the message NSTextView. You'll notice, that unlike the default NSTextView, the blinking cursor is much more indented.

Curious as I am, I opened up Mail's nib, found the compose window and saw that the text box was a Custom View. I can create custom views for text views, but if I can i'd prefer to use a normal everyday NSTextView, but I need to know how to do the indenting bit, its been driving me mad for ages.

If anyone has an answer/code, please reply!

Thankya
Oliver

[bewebste]

I believe the method you're looking for is -[NSTextView setTextContainerInset:]. You can use this to specify the padding you want around the text in the text view. There's no UI in Interface Builder for it, but you can just add a line of code to your controller's awakeFromNib method to do it there.

[iOliverC]

Hey,
I used that code:
[documentTextView setTextContainerInset: 3];
In awakeFromNib. But when I built I get the error:

error: incompatible type for argument 3 of indirect function call

Any ideas, I've never seen this error before.

[Uncle Skeleton]

that argument would seem to be an NSSize, which is a struct with a float width and a float height

[iOliverC]

Sorry to be a newb, but how do I use floats?

[Chuckit]

They're just numbers with a decimal point. 1.1, 5.8703, etc.

[iOliverC]

Sry to ask, but how would I go about (in my code) setting it up so its 1 from the top and 2 from the sides?

Thanks!
Oliver

[seppak]

[theObject setTextContainerInset:NSMakeSize(desiredWidth, desiredHeight)];

NSMakeSize() is a simple C function that returns a NSSize structure.