# At breakpoint in readSelection(from:type:) string type and the old NSStringPboardType is accessible, so you can use pasteboard.string(forType. Inspecting a pasteboard when ⌘V pasting plain text reveals that both the new. NSPasteboard comes with multiple string representations APPKIT_EXTERN NSPasteboardType const NSPasteboardTypeString API_AVAILABLE(macos(10.6)) // Replaces NSStringPboardTypeĪPPKIT_EXTERN NSPasteboardType NSStringPboardType API_DEPRECATED_WITH_REPLACEMENT('NSPasteboardTypeString', macos(10.0,10.14)) Its rawValue is public.utf8-plain-text, which is different from NSStringPboardType. NSPasteboardTypeString is bridged to Swift via. – Keep this in mind why some collections contain both (for legacy compatibility reasons most likely). Objective-C’s NSStringPboardType was deprecated in macOS 10.14, but the replacement NSPasteboardTypeString is available since macOS 10.6. NSStringPboardType is not bridged to Swift It’s my lab notes so you can compare with your findings, and understand how I come to my conclusions. These are more or less the raw observations I made.

I don’t understand the edge cases here, so I’m rather safe than sorry. _stringLegacy in my switch-case statements. string pasteboard type to the arrays of acceptable types, and I use. In fact, I’m combining both approaches, so I’m prepending the. To give the “new” (since masOS 10.6) pasteboard type higher precedence, prepend it to the default types:Ĭlass MyTextView : NSTextView Expand readable and writable pasteboard types The backport seems to work, but extending supported types sounds like more robust solution. Patch into the list of readable/writable types.Add a backport for the deprecated raw value, 'NSStringPboardType'.Since NSTextView doesn’t understand the pasteboard type for reading or writing, I tried two approaches to handle plain text input (pasting) and output (cut/copy): readablePasteboardTypes contains a lot of types, but only 'NSStringPboardType' for plain text copying.-Īn NSPasteboard understands both 'NSStringPboardType' and the value.writablePasteboardTypes contains only 'NSStringPboardType' by default.NSTextView (Plain Text) and the Pasteboard: PasteboardType.string Is Not Handledįor a plain text (not rich text/RTF) NSTextView, I found that:

Mac os paste as plain text