[vlc-devel] [PATCH] macosx: Parse HTML descriptions in addons manager

[Marvin Scholz]

With this commit, HTML descriptions in the addons manager
are parsed correctly and formatting is applied using a
NSAttributedString and a little bit of CSS to make it use
the system font.
---
 modules/gui/macosx/AddonsWindowController.m | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/modules/gui/macosx/AddonsWindowController.m b/modules/gui/macosx/AddonsWindowController.m
index b770a32..fc23748 100644
--- a/modules/gui/macosx/AddonsWindowController.m
+++ b/modules/gui/macosx/AddonsWindowController.m
@@ -205,7 +205,14 @@ - (void)tableViewSelectionDidChange:(NSNotification *)aNotification
     [_name setStringValue:[currentItem name]];
     [_author setStringValue:[currentItem author]];
     [_version setStringValue:[currentItem version]];
-    [_description setString:[currentItem description]];
+
+    // Parse HTML description properly
+    NSMutableString *htmlDescription = [NSMutableString stringWithString:@"<style>body{ font-family: -apple-system-body, -apple-system, HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; }</style>"];
+    [htmlDescription appendString:[currentItem description]];
+    [htmlDescription replaceOccurrencesOfString:@"\n" withString:@"<br />" options:NSLiteralSearch range:NSMakeRange(0, [htmlDescription length])];
+    NSAttributedString *attributedDescription = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithHTML:[htmlDescription dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]
+                                                                      documentAttributes:NULL];
+    [[_description textStorage] setAttributedString:attributedDescription];
 
     [self updateInstallButton:[currentItem isInstalled]];
 }
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2.7.4 (Apple Git-66)