NSUndomanagerMBS for TextArea

Add-Ons
1

The example “TextEdit MBS” shows how to use NSUndomanagerMBS for a CocoaControlMBS based text area. However, the control is deprecated. Is there an updated example for a text area?

2

Well, you could just port it over to either regular TextView or NSTextViewControlMBS control:

dim textView as NSTextViewMBS = textArea1.NSTextViewMBS
dim u as NSUndoManagerMBS = textView.undoManager
u.undo

and of course enable it in the open event for the TextArea:

Dim textView As NSTextViewMBS = textArea1.NSTextViewMBS

textView.allowsUndo = True
3

Thanks!

4

@Christian_Schmitz : can you give some hints on how to use the grouping levels?

As test I want to start a new grouping level if the key is a space a return or a “.”. According to the docs I should be able to use grouping level to check if I’m in a group or not. But I only get grouping level as 0. Therefore, every key down makes a new grouping level. Which is not what I want:

if Key = EndOfLine or Key = " " or Key = "." then
  if UndoManager.groupingLevel = 0 then
    UndoManager.beginUndoGrouping
  else
    UndoManager.endUndoGrouping
  end if
else
  if UndoManager.groupingLevel = 0 then
    UndoManager.beginUndoGrouping
  end if
end if

Return False

And me the Grobmotoriker - of course - makes a nice NSInternalInconsistencyException with the above code and doing an undo:

Exception Name: NSInternalInconsistencyException
Description: _endUndoGroupRemovingIfEmpty:: NSUndoManager 0x600002e6ac40 is in invalid state, endUndoGrouping called with no matching begin

User Info: (null)

0   CoreFoundation                      0x0000000181108570 __exceptionPreprocess + 176
1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x0000000180bf9eb4 objc_exception_throw + 60
2   Foundation                          0x00000001821ef7ec -[NSUndoManager _postCheckpointNotification] + 0
3   Foundation                          0x00000001821b87b8 +[NSUndoManager(NSPrivate) _endTopLevelGroupings] + 192
4   AppKit                              0x0000000184ca8540 -[NSApplication _handleEvent:] + 84
5   AppKit                              0x00000001848613cc -[NSApplication run] + 512
6   XojoFramework                       0x0000000105cdc600 RuntimeRun + 60
7   test.debug                          0x00000001045705c0 REALbasic._RuntimeRun + 28
8   test.debug                          0x000000010475e374 _Main + 712
9   test.debug                          0x000000010475d7a4 main + 36
10  dyld                                0x0000000180c350e0 start + 2360
5

macOS Sonoma 14.3 with MBS from 6.11.2023.