Question

I have a NSTextView textView bind its “data” to “content” property

textView’s rich text support is turned off.

When textView’s content changed, I have its “data” is nil, though its string and rtf is available.

- (NSData*)content ;

- (void)setContent:(NSData *)data;
{
    NSString* s = [textView string];
    NSData* rtf = [textView RTFDFromRange:NSMakeRange(0, [s length])];
// data == nil
// s != nil
// rtf != nil
}

“data” is not nil if I enable textView’s rich text support.

Why is “data” nil ?

Answer 1

From the docs:

data

An NSData instance containing the formatted text of the
NSTextView.

The NSData contains either the RTF or RTFD representation of the
NSTextView contents, depending on the configuration of the NSTextView.

This binding is only available when the NSTextView is configured to
allow multiple fonts. (emphasis added)

In other words, you must turn on Rich Text support to use this binding. If you just want to bind a plain string, use the value binding or for an attributed string use the attributedString binding instead of data.