CATextLayer is largely a convenience class. It provides text
features, but very little flexibility.
You can easily subclass CALayer and create your own text layer that
uses NSFont, complex text layout , and all the familiar methods.
Plus you'll get more flexibility.
I guess that was the answer all along..
The irksome thing is that rolling your own text layer means
duplicating pretty-well all of CATextLayer (maybe that's not much!) -
all for the want of some details of how the text is rendered... If
details were published, it would be pretty easy to subclass and reuse
- which is, of course, one of the main features and objectives of
object-oriented programming.
But Scott is probably right in that I might want more flexibility than
could be provided by any subclassing of CATextLayer.
Thanks again guys!
Karl
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