[Syphor]

Hey all,
I just got a quick question is there any way of formatting a word/sentance/letter (colour, text, bold, italics etc) in a NSTextView, I know this can't be achieved by just drag and dropping it in Interface Builder.... so.. anyone got any ideas?

[invisibleX]

I am so much of a newbie at this... but maybe "%" followed by a formatting tag like you would with NSCalendarDate?

[lfrog2]

I do not know what attributes you are trying to set, but you might want to look at NSText, which is the super class of NSTextView. Some methods of interest are:

setSelectedRange: - you can use this to set the selection of characters you want to change.

setTextColor:
setTextColor:range:
setFont:
setFont:range:

In NSTextView you can replace a set of characters with a different NSAttributedString formated how you like with the insertText: method. You can also use NSTextView's setSelectedRange: method with the setSelectedAttributes: method you change a limited set of attributes (ex. color).

Hope this helps a little.

[Chuckit]

Also, since NSTextStorage inherits from NSMutableAttributedString, you can use any attributed string methods to alter the view's text storage directly.