New text features in Panther?
This is from the WWDC workshop descriptions page[http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/descriptions.html]:
427 - Cocoa Text
Friday, June 27
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Presidio
The text system has always been one of the central components of Cocoa, but this year it's getting some exciting new features that will make it more useful and powerful than ever. We'll briefly review the architecture of the Cocoa text system, then dive in and show you how to start making use of its new capabilities.
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Anyone care to speculate?
See anything else interesting from the WWDC information page?
-bih
427 - Cocoa Text
Friday, June 27
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Presidio
The text system has always been one of the central components of Cocoa, but this year it's getting some exciting new features that will make it more useful and powerful than ever. We'll briefly review the architecture of the Cocoa text system, then dive in and show you how to start making use of its new capabilities.
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Anyone care to speculate?
See anything else interesting from the WWDC information page?
-bih
Comments
Originally posted by WebFlits
Animated fonts?
My thoughts exactly.
Originally posted by WebFlits
Animated fonts?
I have one question. WHY ???
Originally posted by NETROMac
I have one question. WHY ???
Not animated in the form of characters jumping all over your screen.
Ever heard of GX TrueType?
<http://developer.apple.com/fonts/Too...E/TE1typo.html>
Perhaps we'll see the return of some cool Quickdraw GX stuff.
Originally posted by WebFlits
Not animated in the form of characters jumping all over your screen.
Ever heard of GX TrueType?
<http://developer.apple.com/fonts/Too...E/TE1typo.html>
Perhaps we'll see the return of some cool Quickdraw GX stuff.
Oh, I see . Sorry
http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/fonts.html
Barto
I just learned something the other day about cocoa text selection (perhaps carbon too.. didn't check). If you click and drag, you select by character, if you double click and drag, you select by word, if you tripple click and drag you select by paragraph. I thought this was really neat!
Me, I use VI.
Originally posted by Arbernaut
That's pretty damn cool because I type "teh" all the time instead of "the"!!
Speaking of teh, all of the great features that are going to be implemented with the font system probably won't be used by the Finder all that much (although it could utilize them), but more for making those features available to programs that would use them, such as FinalCutPro4.
So no switching to XP yet, (or ever...I'm getting out my ruler ! (so that I can lay the beat down) )
Originally posted by Nitzer
Cocoa text supports many (all?) of the EMACS commands. I don't know what any of them are, but I know that the text system supports them.
Me, I use VI.
Do you use the VI that comes with OS X DEV? If you do, that is amazing. It's different, well OK, OLDER than the one I am used to using.
VI rocks, but so does PICO...and EMACS is good too...I'm probably the only guy on earth who likes all three.
Originally posted by drewprops
Be nice if the OS rendered typefaces in font menus, be really sweet for those of us who do a lot of design work and still wait for apps like Adobe Illustrator to deliver this feature.
if it means anything, the guys at unsanity.com releaseda sneak peek at two updates to their utilities (i think the screenshots were on railheaddesign for a short time), and they will be bringing this feature back in one of their haxies (i would guess menu master, but it might be a new product entirely). they're also unlocking "minimize in place" which was in some of the earlier jaguar betas.
Originally posted by BuonRotto
There's a lot of nice features in Cocoa text. I imagine, they'll just add to them. For example, one that I use a lot is while you're typing, pressing control-t will flip the two characters on either side of your text cursor. So if I typed (and I did) "exmaple," placed the cursor between the m and the a, and typed control-t, the m and a would trade places, so it would read "example." There's a few of those control-letter commands in Cocoa text.
Hmm.. I tried this in TextEdit and it didn't work. What's up with that?