[mikebeam]

Hello-
I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to open an RTF file into a document based application and displaying it in my NSTextView. Is the method readRTFDFromFile all i need to do? Or do i need to update the NSTextView in any way? In my subclass of NSDocument i choose to override the "readFromFile fType:" and "writeToFile fType:" rather than the defualt methods given when you create a new Doc based app in PB. Is this correct? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

[Dalgo]

I'm not quite sure of the answer but I know where you can find the answer. Along with the developer tools is the source to TextEdit. You can find it in /Developer/Examples/AppKit/TextEdit/

[lindberg]

Using readRTFDFromFile (or loading the RTF file into an NSData and using replaceCharactersInRange:withRTF should be fine.

However, keep in mind that when readFromFile:ofType: is called, the nib may not have been loaded yet, meaning all of your outlets are still nil. You can either call [self window] first to ensure the nib is loaded, or you can keep track of the filename in an ivar and call readRTFDFromFile in windowControllerDidLoadNib.

[mikebeam]

Hey, i think that may be the solution i'm looking for-loading the nib. I'll try it out in a bit. Thanks!