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/MacControls/NSTextView Unlimited Tab


Required plugins for this example: MBS MacBase Plugin, MBS MacCocoa Plugin, MBS Main Plugin

You find this example project in your Plugins Download as a Xojo project file within the examples folder: /MacControls/NSTextView Unlimited Tab

This example is the version from Sat, 28th Dec 2012.

Project "NSTextView Unlimited Tab.xojo_binary_project"
Class App Inherits Application
Const kEditClear = "&Delete"
Const kFileQuit = "&Quit"
Const kFileQuitShortcut = ""
End Class
Class Window1 Inherits Window
Control TextArea1 Inherits TextArea
ControlInstance TextArea1 Inherits TextArea
EventHandler Sub Open() dim l as new NSLayoutManagerMBS dim n as NSTextViewMBS = TextArea1.NSTextViewMBS dim c as NSTextContainerMBS = n.textContainer c.replaceLayoutManager l l.textColor = NSColorMBS.redColor l.showInvisibleCharacters = True End EventHandler
End Control
Control Label1 Inherits Label
ControlInstance Label1 Inherits Label
End Control
Control TextArea2 Inherits TextArea
ControlInstance TextArea2 Inherits TextArea
EventHandler Sub Open() dim l as new NSLayoutManagerMBS dim n as NSTextViewMBS = TextArea2.NSTextViewMBS dim c as NSTextContainerMBS = n.textContainer c.replaceLayoutManager l l.textColor = NSColorMBS.redColor l.showInvisibleCharacters = True // Do not wrap with a tabstop. setUnlimitedTab(n) End EventHandler
End Control
Control Label2 Inherits Label
ControlInstance Label2 Inherits Label
End Control
Sub setUnlimitedTab(t as NSTextViewMBS) // NSTextView wraps the lines in the 12th tabstop even though there is space enough to hold the whole line. // This method does not make the lines wrap unexpectedly. dim IsUseNSParagraphStyleDefault as boolean ' Get defaultParagraphStyle dim n as NSParagraphStyleMBS = t.defaultParagraphStyle if n is nil then n = NSParagraphStyleMBS.defaultParagraphStyle IsUseNSParagraphStyleDefault = true end if dim m as NSMutableParagraphStyleMBS = n.mutableCopy ' NSParagraphStyleMBS.defaultParagraphStyle.lineHeightMultiple is 0.0 if IsUseNSParagraphStyleDefault then m.setLineHeightMultiple( 1.0 ) end if ' Set tab Interval (28 is default) m.setDefaultTabInterval( 28.0 ) ' Set empty array to tabStops dim tabs() as NSTextTabMBS m.setTabStops( tabs ) ' Set NSMutableParagraphStyle to defaultParagraphStyle of NSTextView t.defaultParagraphStyle = m ' Set NSDictionary to typingAttributes of NSTextView dim d as new Dictionary d.Value( t.layoutManager.attributedString.NSParagraphStyleAttributeName ) = m t.typingAttributes = d ' Set attributes to the line which has already existed t.textStorage.addAttributes( d, NSMakeRangeMBS(0, t.textStorage.length) ) End Sub
Note "Note"
This example was created by Kuniaki Maruyama
End Class
MenuBar MenuBar1
MenuItem FileMenu = "&File"
MenuItem FileQuit = "#App.kFileQuit"
MenuItem EditMenu = "&Edit"
MenuItem EditUndo = "&Undo"
MenuItem UntitledMenu1 = "-"
MenuItem EditCut = "Cu&t"
MenuItem EditCopy = "&Copy"
MenuItem EditPaste = "&Paste"
MenuItem EditClear = "#App.kEditClear"
MenuItem UntitledMenu0 = "-"
MenuItem EditSelectAll = "Select &All"
End MenuBar
End Project

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The items on this page are in the following plugins: MBS MacControls Plugin.


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