[Commentary] TextMate and [Tutorial] Printing the contents of WebViews

Well things are a little busy this week, but im also getting things done fortunitely. I can finally fully walk around in my closet now thanks to my cleaning session I decided to do on my day off... hey it had to get done sometime. One thing I decided to do is to continue going through my C Book and finally get through coding all the exercises which leads me to my quick commentary on TextMate. [Commentary] TextMate I must say im rather late to the party when it comes to TextMate. The videos I saw gave me the impression it was a good text editor for code and so I downloaded it, but I never really gave it a try till recently. Last night I am going through my C programming language book by Denise Ritche ( I am determined to go through and code all the exercises in the book and I left off in the middle of the thing ) and so I decided to see how TextMate could handle the code from scratch and I can say after experience it handled everything excellently. Heck I could even tell TextMate to compile the C exercises for me so all I had to do was have a terminal open to execute the finished programs. Im still learning and evaluating TextMate before the trial is up, but it looks good and I think it’s something i’ll probably get here soon. My only gripe with TextMate is that I wish it had code completion, but at the same time that might be venturing into the realm of starting to replace parts of Xcode which I don’t believe it’s meant to do. [Tutorial] Printing WebViews One thing you might think when printing a webview is that it should be as easy as something like simply going to File->Print when the WebView is visible or doing something like - (IBAction)printWebView:(id)sender { NSPrintOperation *printOperation; printOperation = [NSPrintOperation printOperationWithView:webView] [printOperation setShowPanels:YES]; [printOperation runOperation]; } However when this is run what happens? It only prints the visible bounds of the web view. At this point newbies and people unaccustomed to WebKit start to say things like WTF, etc. When you do this you are telling Mac OS X to print the WebView as it is visible. In order to print the whole contents of the WebView you must point it at it’s document view. So we end up with something like this: - (IBAction)printWebViewContents:(id)sender { NSPrintInfo *printInfo = [NSPrintInfo sharedPrintInfo]; NSPrintOperation *printOperation; NSView *webView = [[[myWebView mainFrame] frameView] documentView]; [printInfo setTopMargin:15.0]; [printInfo setLeftMargin:10.0]; [printInfo setHorizontallyCentered:NO]; [printInfo setVerticallyCentered:NO]; printOperation = [NSPrintOperation printOperationWithView:webView printInfo:printInfo]; [printOperation setShowPanels:YES]; [printOperation runOperation]; } Once that is is in place it will print all of the contents of the WebView. I set the margins myself in this case to try and make sure the specific document this method is printing fits the way I want. [What do you want covered?] One thing im starting to think about doing here soon is taking requests for covering various general cocoa topics. I used to be a n00b, but now Im sure I use a ton of things on a daily basis that I couldn’t figure out how to do when I was learning cocoa. If you think of something good post a comment about it here. I can’t guarantee i’ll cover everybody’s requests but if people want something explained in detail or elaborated on i’ll do my best to help you guys out. [Happy Thanksgiving!] Whatever you are doing this week I wish all of you safe travels or just a good time with friends and family regardless of what you are doing!