How do I load a text file into a text view?

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#1

Is there an easy way to load a text file with some formatting into a text view on a window?

#2

Hi,

the text storage object (NSTextStorage) of a text view is a subclass of NSAttributedString which can hold formatting attributes. NSAttributedString (using Application Kit Additions) can read files as HTML or RTF data

#3

I would probably need an example as so much of that is greek to me…

:slight_smile:

#4

something like this, textView is the NSTextView instance


set fileURL to current application's NSURL's fileURLWithPath_("/path/to/file.rtf")
set RTFData to current application's NSData's dataWithContentsOfURL_options_error_(fileURL, 0, missing value)
set fileContents to current application's NSAttributedString's alloc()'s initWithData_options_documentAttributes_error_(RTFData, missing value, missing value, missing value)
if fileContents is not missing value then
	textView's insertText_(fileContents)
end if