[mr_sonicblue]

I put a NSTextView object into a NSScrollView to get both horizontal and vertical scrollbars. But, the only way I've found to make the horizontal scrollbar work is by setting the minimum width of NSTextView to a size greater than NScrollView. This is OK, but the horizontal scroll range is stuck the same all the time.

Is there a way to make the horizontal scrollbar to work mroe dynamically (like the vertical one)?

[Dalgo]

- (void)setHasHorizontalScrollerBOOL)flag in NSScrollView is what you want.

[Edit]
oops: I wasn't paying full attention. If you want the thing to resize horizontally until the user hits return there are two things that you could try. I know that in some text classes there is a nowrap option. I have used it in NSTextFieldCell but I have never tried in NSTextView. If there is no equivalent method in NSTextView then you can make a delegate to respond to every key press and set the frame of the NSTextView accordingly. Basically the scrollbars on the NSScrollView are only going to appear if the view that they contain is larger than the scroll View. It isn't something that you set with the scroll view. how much it'll scroll, if the scrollbar is visible is simply a function of the frame of what the view contains. Note that the bounds rect is the visible part of your NSTextView while the frame rect would be the entire view.

[This message has been edited by Dalgo (edited 03-31-2001).]

[mr_sonicblue]

Thanks for the reply, Dalgo. The solution ended up being simple. I just had to turn off width tracking on my NSTextView's NSTextContainer. If anyone else is interested, here's the code I'm using to initialize the objects (scrollView is an NSScrollView and editBox is an NSTextView):

[scrollView setHasVerticalScroller:YES];
[scrollView setHasHorizontalScroller:YES];
[scrollView setDocumentViewNSView *)editBox];

[[editBox textContainer] setContainerSize:NSMakeSize(500000.0,500000.0)];
[[editBox textContainer] setWidthTracksTextView:NO];
[[editBox textContainer] setHeightTracksTextView:NO];
[editBox setHorizontallyResizable:YES];
[editBox setVerticallyResizable:YES];
[editBox setMaxSize:NSMakeSize(500000.0,500000.0)];

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