Text alignment

[David Dunham]

I've been trying to update an alignment menu for an NSTextView, to  
show the current alignment (left, center, justified, right). I  
thought this was working, but an NSTextView with multiple paragraphs  
always shows as NSJustifiedTextAlignment.

In my validateMenuItem: I have

	} else if (cmd == @selector(alignJustified:)) {
		sel = [self selectedRange];
		if (sel.length == 0)
			p = [[self typingAttributes] objectForKey:  
NSParagraphStyleAttributeName];
		else
			p = [[self textStorage] attribute: NSParagraphStyleAttributeName  
atIndex: sel.location effectiveRange: nil];
		[anItem setState: [p alignment] == NSJustifiedTextAlignment];
	}

and this is indeed set in the dictionary (p).

Elsewhere, I'm using -[NSText alignment] to get the alignment. It too  
is returning NSJustifiedTextAlignment when an NSTextView has multiple  
alignments (in different paragraphs). There doesn't have to be any  
justified text at all for this to happen.

I'm guessing this is probably a bug. Has anyone else run into it? Is  
there a workaround for Tiger? (I haven't tried under Leopard yet.)

David Dunham   www.pensee.com/dunham/
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