What is the best way to redirect stdout to NSTextView in Cocoa?

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I was looking to do the same thing and came across this post. I was able to figure it out after reading this and Apple’s documentation. I’m including my solution here. “pipe” and “pipeReadHandle” are declared in the interface. In the init method I included the following code:

pipe = [NSPipe pipe] ;
pipeReadHandle = [pipe fileHandleForReading] ;
dup2([[pipe fileHandleForWriting] fileDescriptor], fileno(stdout)) ;

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver: self selector: @selector(handleNotification:) name: NSFileHandleReadCompletionNotification object: pipeReadHandle] ;
[pipeReadHandle readInBackgroundAndNotify] ;

The handleNotification: method is

[pipeReadHandle readInBackgroundAndNotify] ;
NSString *str = [[NSString alloc] initWithData: [[notification userInfo] objectForKey: NSFileHandleNotificationDataItem] encoding: NSASCIIStringEncoding] ;
// Do whatever you want with str

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