On Aug 22, 2012, at 5:21 PM, Koen van der Drift <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> I'd like to add some custom text highlighting to my NSTextView, so I added 
> the following code to the NSTextView init method:
> 
>    CALayer *aLayer = [CALayer layer];
>    [self setWantsLayer: YES];
>    [self setLayer: aLayer];

This isn't going to work. The nib loading machinery enumerates all your views 
and calls -setWantsLayer: after it has initialized all of them. Put this code 
in -awakeFromNib instead. (Do you really need to subclass NSTextView here?)

> 
> 
> Then I add the highlighting for a particular text range (aRange):
> 
>         self.layer.backgroundColor = CGColorCreateGenericRGB (0.2, 0.2, 0.1, 
> 1.0);
>         self.layer.frame = [self.layoutManager boundingRectForGlyphRange: 
> aRange inTextContainer: self.textContainer];
> 
> But it looks all garbled for the while view, not for the range, and I see the 
> Xcode window text behind it.

Where is this code? I don't think it does what you think it does.

Did you also remember to turn in later-backing for the text view's enclosing 
scroll view?

--Kyle Sluder
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