How to retrieve only font style(Bold,italic,Bold Italic) from font panel(NSFontPanel) and color ?

Question

I am retrieving value from NSFontPanel,which changes the font family,style of Text. But I want only Font Style and color separately that I have selected from NSFontPanel.

i am not getting how to get that.

NSFont *font =[fontmanager selectedFont]; string =[font fontName]; st = [font pointSize]; color =[TextEntered textColor];

1. In string variable I am getting Font family(e.g.Arial) and Font style(e.g. Bold). but I want these values separately.

2. And in color variable I only get black color.

I am not able to understand where I am wrong in getting color,and what function I used for getting font style..

Answer 1

To get the style, you would use [fontmanager traitsOfFont: font]. As for the color, I think you want to get the text as an NSAttributedString and then get the value for the attribute NSForegroundColorAttributeName.

Edit to add: Assuming that your TextEntered variable is NSTextField*, use something like this:

NSAttributedString* theText = [TextEntered attributedStringValue];
NSColor* theColor = (NSColor*)[theText attribute: NSForegroundColorAttributeName
    atIndex: 0 effectiveRange: NULL ];

For strikethrough, use NSStrikethroughStyleAttributeName and for underline use NSUnderlineStyleAttributeName.