Keary, Thanks for responding. :-)
Your answer is what I was afraid of… If “index” only applies to characters, and therefore index 0 is the position of the first visible character in the TextView’s NSAttributedString, I could iterate through, finding the range of each cell’s characters, then jumping to the next index after that and asking again. That should work, but what the heck would I pass as the textBlock pointer? Since a text block is exactly what I’m trying to find, I don’t have a good pointer to start with, do I? — Charles Jenkins On Tuesday, November 18, 2014 at 12:50, Keary Suska wrote: > On Nov 18, 2014, at 2:38 AM, Charles Jenkins <[email protected] > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > > It’s very easy to create an NSAttributedString that represents a text > > table, then show the table in a TextView so the user can edit information > > in the cells. The documentation on how to create a text table > > (https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/TextLayout/Articles/TextTables.html) > > is fairly clear. > > > > What I don’t see—and maybe it’s there but I just don’t understand it—is how > > to pull the table apart again. Suppose I want to grab all text from the > > first cell after the user has edited it. How do I do that? > > -rangeOfTextBlock:atIndex: might be your best bet. The hard part is finding > exactly "where" you are interested in. If you are only interested in where a > user has edited, a delegate method may get you there, otherwise, I don't > know. You may need to keep meta-data about constructed tables. > > HTH, > > Keary Suska > Esoteritech, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
