Re: What's the faster way to change attributes of string ?

[Yen-Ju Chen]

> From: Alexander Malmberg <alexander@malmberg.org>
> To: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: What's the faster way to change attributes of string ?
> Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 19:58:13 +0200
>
> Yen-Ju Chen wrote:
>
> >   I have two choices:
> >   1. Build a new NSAttributedString and use [NSTextStorage
> > setAttributedString:].
> >   2. Directly use -addAttribute:value:range: on NSTextStorage.
> >   Is there any significant difference in speed between this two ways ?
>
> Unless you're changing the attributes of every single character in the
> string, #2 should be faster, but perhaps not by much. However, for #2,
> it's very important that you call -beginEditing before the first change
> and -endEditing after the last change. Otherwise, #2 will be very slow.

 I change the color and font for each keyword in the source code.
 I'll try to implement the second one to see the difference.
 Thanx.

 Yen-Ju

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