Q:  I'm trying to use the pasteFont: method of the Text object to extract font information from the Font Pasteboard.  The trouble is, when I try to do this, I always get the default font informationÐHelvetica 12pt.  What am I doing wrong?
	
A:  The solution is easy but perhaps not obvious.  In order for the paste operation to have any effect, the Text object must contain a selection.  It is not even strictly necessary that it contain any text.  The following code illustrates the ªlow-painº method of extracting font values from the Pasteboard.  (The alternative ªhigh-painº method would involve parsing the rich text format from the Pasteboard):

	#import <appkit/Text.h>
	#import <appkit/Font.h>

		id	font, myText;
	
		/* Allocate a temporary Text object */
		myText = [[Text alloc] init];
	
		/* It must allow multiple fonts -- i.e. rich text */
		[myText setMonoFont: NO];
	
		/* Stick in some text -- optional */
		[myText setText:"hello"];
	
		/* And select it -- any selection will do so long */
		/* as something is selected */
		[myText setSel:0  :1];
		
		/* pasteFont: will copy the font info from the Pasteboard
		/* to the font in the Text object */
		[myText pasteFont:sender];
	
		/* Do what you need to with the font */
		font = [myText font];
	
		/* Then free up the Text object */
		[myText free];

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Valid for 2.0, 3.0