On 3 Jun 2008, at 19:19, Ross Carter wrote:
First I will echo what Jens has said: there's a strong probability that NSAttributedString or NSMutableAttributedString will do what need. NSTextStorage adds two capabilities to NSMutableAttributedString: it communicates with one or more NSLayoutManagers that are involved in laying out the attributed string in one or more NSTextContainers, and it supports some scripting commands.
I think it also uses a different internal representation (probably a gap buffer) so that it can efficiently support editing. My guess is that NSTextStorage is therefore a somewhat more expensive object to throw around than an NS[Mutable]AttributedString, but that it will be more efficient if e.g. you want to write a text editor.
The notion of copying an NSTextStorage object does not make much sense to me.
Well I think it does make sense in that I don't see why you *shouldn't* be able to copy one. That's not to say that I think it's something that most applications would do on a regular basis though.
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