setSelectedTextAttributes in NSTextView

[ddavidso at apple.com (Douglas Davidson)]

On Mar 1, 2004, at 1:03 PM, Eric Shepherd wrote:

> When I call this, the change doesn't take place, and the color used 
> for highlighted text becomes transparent or something.  I can still 
> select text, but there's no visible highlighting.  It doesn't seem to 
> matter which attributes I try to set.
>
> Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
>
>     attributes = [NSDictionary 
> dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:NSUnderlineStyleNone, 
> NSUnderlineStyleAttributeName, nil];
>     [self setSelectedTextAttributes:attributes];

I'm not sure what you're reporting on, or what you are trying to 
accomplish.  The selected text underline currently allows the addition 
of underlines, but not their removal.  There is a known issue that the 
change does not itself cause redraw.  Try setting 
NSBackgroundColorAttributeName.

Douglas Davidson