Introduction to Text System User Interface Layer

Explains how to implement the main, high-level interface to the Cocoa text system.

Who Should Read This Document

You should read this document if your application needs to present a user interface to the full capabilities of the text system, that is, if your users need to edit substantial amounts of text.

To understand this material you should have a general understanding of Cocoa programming conventions, and you should have read Cocoa Text Architecture Guide.

Organization of This Document

This document contains the following articles:

The User-Interface Layer: NSTextView Class describes the capabilities and features of the NSTextView class, through which most applications interact with the text system.
Creating an NSTextView Object explains how to instantiate an NSTextView object using Interface Builder.
Creating an NSTextView Programmatically explains how to create an NSTextView object in code and cause it to create its supporting web of text-handling objects.
Putting an NSTextView Object in an NSScrollView shows how to programmatically configure an NSTextView object with scroll bars.
Using Multiple NSTextViews describes the attributes held in common by multiple text views configured to share a single layout manager.
Plain and Rich Text Objects explains the difference between plain text and rich text and lists the RTF control words that any text object recognizes.
Setting Text Attributes discusses text attributes and the action methods you can use to control them programmatically.
Setting Text Margins describes the values, maintained by various text system objects, that affect the apparent margins surrounding text on a printed page or display.

Introduction to Text System User Interface Layer

Who Should Read This Document

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