Posts tagged “nstextview”
NSTextView is one part of TextKit, the Mac’s text system. The overview explains how it works together with NSTextStorage, NSLayoutManager, and NSTypesetter, links Apple’s documentation, and collects my posts on all of these components.
2025
NSPopover in NSTextView With Links Is Broken: Accessibility Hierarchy Slowdown
Showing a popover relative to a text view will compute the accessibility hierarchy 3 times per clickable link in the text view; that can get slow real quick.
NSTextView Bypasses performKeyEquivalent Check for Backspace and Option-Backspace
Shortcuts, aka “key equivalents”, are usually handled by views in your vier hierarchy in the same, predicatable way. Except deleting a character or word with backspace in a text view. These two, apparently, short-circuit this mechanism.
2024
We don’t think about this as we write: the blinking cursor tells a useful lie about what the text looks like, so we can work on an abstraction that is about the space between characters, and especially the space after the last character.
2022
ChatGPT: Publish NSTextView Changes to ReSwift, but Also Use a Lamport Clock
Conversation log with ChatGPT.
NSTextView (Plain Text) and the Pasteboard: PasteboardType.string Is Not Handled
How to Fix When Some Text Changes Don't Come with Automatic Undo?
2021
What Do You Get When You Drag and Drop a PNG File From Finder Into an NSTextView?
NSTextView Performance May Degrade for Large Plain Text Documents When usesFontPanel Is Active
Disable NSTextAttachment Action and Sharing Services Menu Drop-Down
2020
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2018
NSTextField usesSingleLineMode Stops Working When You Implement NSTextViewDelegate Methods
NSTextView's Default Insertion Point and Selected Text Colors
