Here’s what I tried:
set contents of text view "textView" of scroll view "scrollView" of window "main" to (call method "readRTFDFromFile:" of file theFilePath)
No-go, Flight.
What am I missing? theFilePath is set up to (path to desktop folder as string) & “FOO.rtfd”.
Offhand, I would try something like this:
tell text view "textView" of scroll view "scrollView" of window "main"
call method "readRTFDFromFile:" with parameters file theFilePath
set contents to result
end tell
You may also need to use a POSIX path.
tell text view "textView" of scroll view "scrollView" of window "main"
call method "readRTFDFromFile:" with parameters (POSIX path of theFilePath)
set contents to result
end tell
See also: readRTFDFromFile:
Thanks, Bruce.
These did not work. The error ststes that the variable “result” is not defined.
I read the reference you posted before and after posting… I just can’t seem to get this to work…
Edit: Check out Dominik’s reply below.
OK. I’ll try finding another way to read the content of an RTF file into a text view while preserving its font info…
I’ve been digging for days on this. A search for RTF yields 0 hits on this board, and I can’t find any info on reading them (plenty on writing if I search for rich text). I was only using this method because in the one post I could find dealing with reading RTFs the poster mentioned he used it and it worked (he didn’t post the code, though). I just can’t seem to find the technique for parsing these files.
Back to square 0… Thanks for your help, though.
Cheers,
Doug
Hi Doug,
this one should work:
tell text view "textView" of scroll view "scrollView" of window "main"
call method "readRTFDFromFile:" of it with parameter (POSIX path of theFilePath)
end tell
D. 
Thanks Dominik. 
I tried that before and it didn’t work! It turns out I lost a little information in a crash earlier.
It works! Thanks a lot!
I just realized it would be helpful to call just the first paragraph of the RTF. I tried:
tell textBox -- my vriable for the text view
call method "readRTFDFromFile:" of it with parameter paragraph 1 of (POSIX path of theFilePath)
end tell
As I’m sure you can tell by looking at it, that didn’t work…
Any ideas? (Then I swear I’ll leave you alone 
)
Thanks again!
Hi Doug,
unfortunately there is no readymade cocoa method (none that I knew of) to load only a part of an RTFD file. So the only thing you can do is writing it 
Here two method additions for NSText for:
Just add a new Objective-C class file to your project and name it “myNSTextAddition” (for example). Then replace the content of the two files myNSTextAddition.h and myNSTextAddition.m with this code:
// myNSTextAddition.h
#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>
@interface NSText (myNSTextAddition)
-(void)readRangeOfRTFDfile:(NSString *)thePath range:(NSRange)theRange;
-(void)readParagraphsOfRTFDfile:(NSString *)thePath numberOfParagraphs:(int)paragraphs;
@end
// myNSTextAddition.m
#import "myNSTextAddition.h"
@implementation NSText (myNSTextAddition)
-(void)readRangeOfRTFDfile:(NSString *)thePath range:(NSRange)theRange{
NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
NSText *importedFile = [[NSText alloc] init];
[importedFile readRTFDFromFile:thePath];
NSData *rangeFromFile = [importedFile RTFDFromRange];
[importedFile release];
NSRange replacementRange = [self selectedRange];
[self replaceCharactersInRange:replacementRange withRTFD:rangeFromFile];
[pool release];
}
-(void)readParagraphsOfRTFDfile:(NSString *)thePath numberOfParagraphs:(int)paragraphs{
NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
NSText *importedFile = [[NSText alloc] init];
[importedFile readRTFDFromFile:thePath];
NSArray *stringParagraphs = [[importedFile string] componentsSeparatedByString:@"\n"];
int paraCount = [stringParagraphs count];
if (paragraphs > paraCount) { // edited here! sry - this line was missing after copying the code ...
paragraphs = paraCount;
}
int rangeLength = 0;
int n;
for (n=0; n<paragraphs; n++) {
rangeLength += [[stringParagraphs objectAtIndex:n] length] + 1;
}
NSRange importRange = NSMakeRange(0,rangeLength);
NSData *rangeFromFile = [importedFile RTFDFromRange:importRange];
[importedFile release];
NSRange replacementRange = [self selectedRange];
[self replaceCharactersInRange:replacementRange withRTFD:rangeFromFile];
[pool release];
}
Now you can use the two methods from your AppleScript using ‘call method’ - like any other NSText method:
set importRange to {4,15}
tell text view "textView" of scroll view "scrollView" of window "main"
call method "readRangeOfRTFDfile:range:" of it with parameters {(POSIX path of theFilePath), importRange}
-- loads characters 4 thru 15 of the RTFD file to your text view
end tell
set numberOfParagraphs to 5
tell text view "textView" of scroll view "scrollView" of window "main"
call method "readParagraphsOfRTFDfile:numberOfParagraphs:" of it with parameters {(POSIX path of theFilePath), numberOfParagraphs}
-- loads the first 5 paragraphs of the RTFD file to your text view
end tell
I haven’t had time to thorroughly test this code … i hope it’ll works as expected …
D.
Would RTFDFromRange: or RTFFromRange: be useful for this?
That’s exactly what I used in the methods above. What I made was nothing else than creating a temporary NSText to load the whole file, ‘RTFDFromRange:’ to cut the portion of RTFD data I need and ‘replaceCharactersInRange:withRTFD:’ to replace the TNSText’s contents with the result.
Thanks again, Dominik. I can’t test this right now, but I didn’t want your help to go unnoticed.
I’m trying so hard to learn this stuff quickly… I’m trying to learn C to give me a base for C++ then Objective-C. It’s tough, but with help like this it’s MUCH better.
Thanks to both of you.
Doug