How to set monospaced font for a NSTextView

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erick2red OP

Created Apr ’20

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Hi,

I'm trying to set a textview to use a monospaced font, the default monospace font and while it's working, I'm getting this warning.

The code I'm using is the one from Apple's docs:

textView.font = NSFont.monospacedSystemFont(ofSize: 12, weight: .regular)

but when I run my app the warning below shows up:

2020-04-04 09:18:10.725876-0500 Xcutioner[58296:2835209] CoreText note: Client requested name ".SFNSMono-Bold", it will get Times-Roman rather than the intended font. All system UI font access should be through proper APIs such as CTFontCreateUIFontForLanguage() or +[NSFont systemFontOfSize:].

Any idea on how to get rid of this warning? Is the preferred way to set a monospaced font not the one in Apple's documentation?

Thanks

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Answer 1

janabanana OP

Apr ’20

Set it through setTypingAttributes: and possibly setDefaultParagraphStyle: if you want to fiddle with those as well (line spacing, etc.).

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Answer 2

erick2red OP

Apr ’20

Hi,

Thanks for your help. I'll have to try that one later. For some reason the error disappeared, and it's not giving me a warning anymore. The code is the same as before. I'm pretty sure it got updated with Xcode the other day.

In any case, thanks again.

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Answer 3

janabanana OP

Apr ’20

Things get curiouser--I had this error pop up. I put a button on a window--the button had the default font from what ever IB decided to give it--a system font if I recall. Well, that same error popped up. I went in and changed the font for the button and the error went away. I am wondering if this is a bug.

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