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# NSTextStorage

### Authors

Richard Frith-Macdonald (`richard@brainstorm.co.uk`)

Copyright: (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

### Contents -

1. Software documentation for the NSTextStorage class
2. Software documentation for the NSObject(NSTextStorageDelegate) informal protocol

# Software documentation for the NSTextStorage class

## NSTextStorage : NSMutableAttributedString

> Declared in:
>   AppKit/NSTextStorage.h

Availability: OpenStep
Description forthcoming.

Instance Variables
Method summary

- -addLayoutManager:
- -beginEditing
- -changeInLength
- -delegate
- -edited:range:changeInLength:
- -editedMask
- -editedRange
- -endEditing
- -ensureAttributesAreFixedInRange:
- -fixesAttributesLazily
- -invalidateAttributesInRange:
- -layoutManagers
- -processEditing
- -removeLayoutManager:
- -setDelegate:

### addLayoutManager:

- (void) addLayoutManager: (GSLayoutManager*)obj;
Availability: OpenStep
Description forthcoming.

### beginEditing

- (void) beginEditing;
Availability: OpenStep
Description forthcoming.

### changeInLength

- (int) changeInLength;
Availability: OpenStep
Description forthcoming.

### delegate

- (id) delegate;
Availability: OpenStep
Returns the value most recently set usiong the -setDelegate: method.

### edited: range: changeInLength:

- (void) edited: (unsigned)mask range: (NSRange)old changeInLength: (int)delta;
Availability: OpenStep
Description forthcoming.

### editedMask

- (unsigned) editedMask;
Availability: OpenStep
Description forthcoming.

### editedRange

- (NSRange) editedRange;
Availability: OpenStep
Description forthcoming.

### endEditing

- (void) endEditing;
Availability: OpenStep
Description forthcoming.

### ensureAttributesAreFixedInRange:

- (void) ensureAttributesAreFixedInRange: (NSRange)range;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.0.0
Description forthcoming.

### fixesAttributesLazily

- (BOOL) fixesAttributesLazily;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.0.0
Description forthcoming.

### invalidateAttributesInRange:

- (void) invalidateAttributesInRange: (NSRange)range;
Availability: MacOS-X 10.0.0
Description forthcoming.

### layoutManagers

- (NSArray*) layoutManagers;
Availability: OpenStep
Description forthcoming.

### processEditing

- (void) processEditing;
Availability: OpenStep
Description forthcoming.

### removeLayoutManager:

- (void) removeLayoutManager: (GSLayoutManager*)obj;
Availability: OpenStep
Description forthcoming.

### setDelegate:

- (void) setDelegate: (id)delegate;
Availability: OpenStep
Set the delegate (adds it as an observer for text storage notifications) and removes any old value (removes it as an observer).
The delegate is not retained.

## Instance Variables for NSTextStorage Class

### _delegate

@protected id _delegate;
Warning the underscore at the start of the name of this instance variable indicates that, even though it is not technically private, it is intended for internal use within the package, and you should not use the variable in other code.

### _editCount

@protected unsigned int _editCount;
Warning the underscore at the start of the name of this instance variable indicates that, even though it is not technically private, it is intended for internal use within the package, and you should not use the variable in other code.

### _editedDelta

@protected int _editedDelta;
Warning the underscore at the start of the name of this instance variable indicates that, even though it is not technically private, it is intended for internal use within the package, and you should not use the variable in other code.

### _editedMask

@protected unsigned int _editedMask;
Warning the underscore at the start of the name of this instance variable indicates that, even though it is not technically private, it is intended for internal use within the package, and you should not use the variable in other code.

### _editedRange

@protected NSRange _editedRange;
Warning the underscore at the start of the name of this instance variable indicates that, even though it is not technically private, it is intended for internal use within the package, and you should not use the variable in other code.

### _layoutManagers

@protected NSMutableArray* _layoutManagers;
Warning the underscore at the start of the name of this instance variable indicates that, even though it is not technically private, it is intended for internal use within the package, and you should not use the variable in other code.

# Software documentation for the NSObject(NSTextStorageDelegate) informal protocol

## NSObject(NSTextStorageDelegate)

> Declared in:
>   AppKit/NSTextStorage.h

Availability: OpenStep
Description forthcoming.
Method summary

- -textStorageDidProcessEditing:
- -textStorageWillProcessEditing:

### textStorageDidProcessEditing:

- (void) textStorageDidProcessEditing: (NSNotification*)notification;
Availability: OpenStep
Description forthcoming.

### textStorageWillProcessEditing:

- (void) textStorageWillProcessEditing: (NSNotification*)notification;
Availability: OpenStep
Description forthcoming.

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