macOS NSTextView Problem

[joshSIM]

hey, kinda new here but hope i get answers
in Xcode I have a scripting bridge to Mail.app. To send a message i need an NSTextView... problem is I store the email gradually in an NSMutableDictionary and you cant store text in an NSTextView, only in an NSTextField
please help!
TIA
Josh

 

[robbieduncan]

The superclass of NSTextView is NSText. This has both string and setString methods to get/set the string. I don't see why you can't "store text in a NSTextView".

 

[foidulus]

The superclass of NSTextView is NSText. This has both string and setString methods to get/set the string. I don't see why you can't "store text in a NSTextView".

Wouldn't it be better if you used KVC?

 

[robbieduncan]

Wouldn't it be better if you used KVC?

I don't see what Key-Value Coding has to do with the question posed.

 

[joshSIM]

when I open interface builder I click on the NSTextView and go to the value bindings but it is disabled
????
Josh

 

[robbieduncan]

So you can't bind the property. This makes some sense given the noted performance optimisation in the documentation for the string method. You will have to write some actual code.

 

[joshSIM]

Can you please give me examples?

Could ou please give me examples of code, prehaps in a form of a controller, I am a complete noob so please help!
TIA
Josh

 

[robbieduncan]

Could ou please give me examples of code, prehaps in a form of a controller, I am a complete noob so please help!
TIA
Josh

No. I firmly believe that providing people with "example" code simply results in that code being blindly copy/pasted and the person learns nothing. The art of programming is in the programmers ability to think about a problem, break it down and solve it. Not in copying code someone else has written.

 

[joshSIM]

Your right

I would like to learn C.
Do you know any good ebooks to start learning cocoa proggraming?
Thanks
Josh
(P.S your right, sorry)

 

[robbieduncan]

Do you want to learn C or Cocoa? One is a programming language the other is a set of APIs which are mostly targeted against Objective-C which is a different language. Unfortunately I don't know of any good e-Books. The course text when we were taught C in first year at Uni was A Book on C which I found to be pretty good.