Displaying text in a NSScrollView (Swift)

Question

Just started to learn Swift and created a little macOS app in which I want to use a NSScrollView to display an attributed String. I’ve tried:

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Answer 1

Apple's has an article about setting up a text view inside a scroll view programmatically. Text System User Interface Layer Programming Guide: Putting an NSTextView Object in an NSScrollView You should read that for greatest understanding, but here's the code:

NSScrollView *scrollview = [[NSScrollView alloc] initWithFrame:[[theWindow contentView] frame]];
NSSize contentSize = [scrollview contentSize];

[scrollview setBorderType:NSNoBorder];
[scrollview setHasVerticalScroller:YES];
[scrollview setHasHorizontalScroller:NO];
[scrollview setAutoresizingMask:NSViewWidthSizable | NSViewHeightSizable];

theTextView = [[NSTextView alloc] initWithFrame:NSMakeRect(0, 0, contentSize.width, contentSize.height)];
[theTextView setMinSize:NSMakeSize(0.0, contentSize.height)];
[theTextView setMaxSize:NSMakeSize(FLT_MAX, FLT_MAX)];
[theTextView setVerticallyResizable:YES];
[theTextView setHorizontallyResizable:NO];
[theTextView setAutoresizingMask:NSViewWidthSizable];

[[theTextView textContainer] setContainerSize:NSMakeSize(contentSize.width, FLT_MAX)];
[[theTextView textContainer] setWidthTracksTextView:YES];
[scrollview setDocumentView:theTextView];
[theWindow setContentView:scrollview];
[theWindow makeKeyAndOrderFront:nil];
[theWindow makeFirstResponder:theTextView];

You can then set the text of the text view by operating on its textStorage object:

theTextView.textStorage.attributedString = attributedString;