NSText Class Reference

Tasks

Getting the Characters

• – string

Setting Graphics Attributes

• – setBackgroundColor:
• – backgroundColor
• – setDrawsBackground:
• – drawsBackground

Setting Behavioral Attributes

• – setEditable:
• – isEditable
• – setSelectable:
• – isSelectable
• – setFieldEditor:
• – isFieldEditor
• – setRichText:
• – isRichText
• – setImportsGraphics:
• – importsGraphics

Using the Font Panel and Menu

• – setUsesFontPanel:
• – usesFontPanel

Using the Ruler

• – toggleRuler:
• – isRulerVisible

Changing the Selection

• – setSelectedRange:
• – selectedRange

Replacing Text

• – replaceCharactersInRange:withRTF:
• – replaceCharactersInRange:withRTFD:
• – replaceCharactersInRange:withString:
• – setString:

Action Methods for Editing

• – selectAll:
• – copy:
• – cut:
• – paste:
• – copyFont:
• – pasteFont:
• – copyRuler:
• – pasteRuler:
• – delete:

Changing the Font

• – changeFont:
• – setFont:
• – setFont:range:
• – font

Setting Text Alignment

• – setAlignment:
• – alignCenter:
• – alignLeft:
• – alignRight:
• – alignment

Setting Text Color

• – setTextColor:
• – setTextColor:range:
• – textColor

Writing Direction

• – baseWritingDirection
• – setBaseWritingDirection:

Setting Superscripting and Subscripting

• – superscript:
• – subscript:
• – unscript:

Underlining Text

• – underline:

Reading and Writing RTF Files

• – readRTFDFromFile:
• – writeRTFDToFile:atomically:
• – RTFDFromRange:
• – RTFFromRange:

Checking Spelling

• – checkSpelling:
• – showGuessPanel:

Constraining Size

• – setMaxSize:
• – maxSize
• – setMinSize:
• – minSize
• – setVerticallyResizable:
• – isVerticallyResizable
• – setHorizontallyResizable:
• – isHorizontallyResizable
• – sizeToFit

Scrolling

• – scrollRangeToVisible:

Setting the Delegate

• – setDelegate:
• – delegate

typedef enum _NSTextAlignment {
   NSLeftTextAlignment      = 0,
   NSRightTextAlignment     = 1,
   NSCenterTextAlignment    = 2,
   NSJustifiedTextAlignment = 3,
   NSNaturalTextAlignment   = 4
} NSTextAlignment;

enum {
   NSWritingDirectionNatural     = -1,
   NSWritingDirectionLeftToRight = 0,
   NSWritingDirectionRightToLeft
};
typedef NSInteger NSWritingDirection;

enum {
   NSTextWritingDirectionEmbedding     = (0 << 1),
   NSTextWritingDirectionOverride      = (1 << 1)
};

enum {
   NSIllegalTextMovement = 0,
   NSReturnTextMovement  = 0x10,
   NSTabTextMovement     = 0x11,
   NSBacktabTextMovement = 0x12,
   NSLeftTextMovement    = 0x13,
   NSRightTextMovement   = 0x14,
   NSUpTextMovement      = 0x15,
   NSDownTextMovement    = 0x16,
   NSCancelTextMovement  = 0x17,
   NSOtherTextMovement    = 0
};

enum {
   NSParagraphSeparatorCharacter = 0x2029,
   NSLineSeparatorCharacter      = 0x2028,
   NSTabCharacter                = 0x0009,
   NSFormFeedCharacter           = 0x000c,
   NSNewlineCharacter            = 0x000a,
   NSCarriageReturnCharacter     = 0x000d,
   NSEnterCharacter              = 0x0003,
   NSBackspaceCharacter          = 0x0008,
   NSBackTabCharacter            = 0x0019,
   NSDeleteCharacter             = 0x007f
};