Cocoa in a Nutshell

Name

NSMutableAttributedString — Mac OS X 10.0

Synopsis

NSMutableAttributedString is a subclass of NSAttributedString that allows the contents and attributes of the string to be altered after the object has been initialized, which is normally not possible with its immutable superclass.

@interface NSMutableAttributedString : NSAttributedString

// Accessor Methods

- (void)setAttributes:(NSDictionary *)attrs range:(NSRange)range;

- (void)setAlignment:(NSTextAlignment)alignment range:(NSRange)range;

- (void)setAttributedString:(NSAttributedString *)attrString;

// Instance Methods

- (void)appendAttributedString:(NSAttributedString *)attrString;

- (void)addAttribute:(NSString *)name value:(id)value range:(NSRange)range;

- (void)addAttributes:(NSDictionary *)attrs range:(NSRange)range;

- (void)applyFontTraits:(NSFontTraitMask)traitMask range:(NSRange)range;

- (void)beginEditing;

- (void)deleteCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range;

- (void)endEditing;

- (void)fixAttachmentAttributeInRange:(NSRange)range;

- (void)fixAttributesInRange:(NSRange)range;

- (void)fixFontAttributeInRange:(NSRange)range;

- (void)fixParagraphStyleAttributeInRange:(NSRange)range;

- (void)insertAttributedString:(NSAttributedString *)attrString atIndex:(unsigned)loc;

- (NSMutableString *)mutableString;

- (BOOL)readFromURL:(NSURL *)url options:(NSDictionary *)options documentAttributes ...