Dragging caret in NSTextView doesn't match result of characterIndexForPoint

Question

I\'m dragging onto an NSTextView (from a table in another window) and as I drag over the text in the NSTextView a caret is displayed showing the insertion point. There appea

Answer 1

Ok, the solution is to use characterIndexForInsertionAtPoint instead of characterIndexForPoint. Thusly,

NSPoint mouseLocation = [sender draggingLocation];
NSUInteger dropLocation = [self characterIndexForInsertionAtPoint:[self convertPoint:mouseLocation fromView:nil]];