Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Displaying HTML in NSTextView

[Dinu G. <gh...@da...>]

I wondered:

> did anybody succeed already in displaying HTML code properly
> inside NSTextViews? If so, I'd be grateful for a simple code
> snippet... The ObjC stuff I've found so far does successfully
> resist my Pythonification attempts...

Strange... There seems to be a method for NSAttributedString with
the following ObjC-signature:

- (id)initWithHTML:(NSData *)data
       baseURL:(NSURL *)aURL
       documentAttributes:(NSDictionary **)docAttributes

It was really hard to find on this page:

    
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ 
ApplicationKit/ObjC_classic/Classes/NSAttributedString.html

but it seems not to be described in my local Developer header files!
Neither is it described in my copy of CocoaBrowser.app (which just
imports the local developer documentation, I think).

Using it in ObjC works, but since much of the PyObjC-interface was
somehow created automatically from such header files I guess, it
is just not available in PyObjC now!

I'm not sure if this method is deprecated or what. It makes sense
and it works. Here is a very nice, very short sample project which
uses it (build your own webbrowser with almost no code):

   http://jrepp.com/cocoabb/viewtopic.php?t=32
   http://jrepp.com/src/WeBrowser.tgz

The question that remains is: can we add this to PyObjC somehow, so
I can eat my HTML/NSTextView cake, too? ;-) Note, that I'd like to
see a simple paragraph somewhere in the developer documentation that
would explain to me how I can add such stuff myself, unless it's
already there, of course...

Thanks,

Dinu

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