How to make columns in a text view?

AppleScript In Xcode
#1

Is NSTextContainer a good candidate for that?
And how to achieve it?

#2

NSTextContainer is probably what you need (along with other classes), unless you’re thinking of tables. But the “how” part looks to be pretty complicated — possibly too much for ASObjC.

I suspect you’re going to have to track down an Objective-C project, and do the translation yourself.

#3

That’s what I was affraid of…

Thanks anyway :wink:

#4

There’s an Apple sample project here.

#5

Thanks Phil,

I already found a way to do it. This is just a rough draft:

		-- create the text storage
		set textStorage to current application's NSTextStorage's alloc()'s initWithAttributedString:styledString
		-- add layout manager to the text storage
		set textLayout to current application's NSLayoutManager's alloc()'s init()
		textStorage's addLayoutManager:textLayout
		-- create the text containers
		set textContainer1 to current application's NSTextContainer's alloc()'s initWithSize:{360, 700}
		set textContainer2 to current application's NSTextContainer's alloc()'s initWithSize:{360, 700}
		set textContainer3 to current application's NSTextContainer's alloc()'s initWithSize:{360, 700}
		-- add the text containers to text layout manager
		textLayout's insertTextContainer:textContainer1 atIndex:0
		textLayout's insertTextContainer:textContainer2 atIndex:1
		textLayout's insertTextContainer:textContainer3 atIndex:2
		-- create text views linked to the text containers
		set textView1 to current application's NSTextView's alloc()'s initWithFrame:{{40, 40}, {360, 700}} textContainer:textContainer1
		set textView2 to current application's NSTextView's alloc()'s initWithFrame:{{420, 40}, {360, 700}} textContainer:textContainer2
		set textView3 to current application's NSTextView's alloc()'s initWithFrame:{{800, 40}, {360, 700}} textContainer:textContainer3
		-- add text views to the main view
		theWindow's contentView()'s addSubview:textView1
		theWindow's contentView()'s addSubview:textView2
		theWindow's contentView()'s addSubview:textView3

I will give a look to the link you kindly provided. :wink:

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#6

Cool — it doesn’t look nearly as bad as I thought.