Skip to Content
Cocoa® Programming for Mac OS® X For Dummies®
book

Cocoa® Programming for Mac OS® X For Dummies®

by Erick Tejkowski
February 2009
Beginner content levelBeginner
408 pages
7h 53m
English
For Dummies
Content preview from Cocoa® Programming for Mac OS® X For Dummies®

Chapter 11. Text

In This Chapter

  • Displaying text

  • Changing the style of text

  • Editing text

  • Saving text to a file

  • Opening and displaying text files

Ever since the first Macintosh computer, Apple has led the consumer computer world in design, layout, and typography. Mac OS X continues this tradition by providing some of the best-looking text that you'll ever see on a computer monitor. Cocoa gives programmers instant access to these wonderful features of OS X.

This chapter shows you how to work with text for a variety of purposes. First, you display some text in a window. Then, you manipulate that text, contorting its sizes and altering its hue. Next, you discover how easy it is to add professional text-editing features to your applications with little or no code. Finally, you save the text from your interface to a file for later recall. Stylized text is a great feature for many types of applications, and Cocoa gives you a wide range of tools for manipulating that text.

Working with Text

Cocoa has many different controls for working with text in applications. Some text controls display text as a label; other controls permit full editing like a word processor. Interface Builder offers several controls for working with text, but they generally inherit from one of two controls:

  • NSTextField: Displays static or dynamic text. Use this control to display one line of text.

  • NSTextView: The star of the text fields in Cocoa. This baby can work with multiple lines of text. When you think of a word processor, ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Cocoa Programming for OS X: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

Cocoa Programming for OS X: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

Aaron Hillegass, Adam Preble, Nate Chandler
Learning Cocoa with Objective-C, 2nd Edition

Learning Cocoa with Objective-C, 2nd Edition

Apple Computer Inc, James Duncan Davidson
Learning Cocoa with Objective-C, 4th Edition

Learning Cocoa with Objective-C, 4th Edition

Paris Buttfield-Addison, Jonathon Manning, Tim Nugent

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780470432891Purchase book