I've noticed that in table views, the NSTextFieldCell has the
ability to ever-so-slightly squash its contents horizontally, to fit
inside the table cell, before eventually giving up and truncating
them with ellipses.
Is there any way for me to programmatically do the same thing to my
own NSTextFieldCell?
As I'm typing this, suddenly I'm thinking "maybe I could fake it by
altering the cell's bounds while leaving the frame alone"… but is
there a better way? Changing the bounds would make the text thinner,
which isn't quite the same as squeezing the letters more tightly
together.
With attributed strings, you can set the paragraph style to be one
whose setLineBreakMode is one of the three truncation modes (which
provides the ellipsis), and use can even use
setTighteningFactorForTruncation to adjust how much it tries to reduce
the intercharacter spacing before switching to inserting an ellipsis.
You can probably also manually change NSKernAttributeName property of
the strings attributes as well.
Glenn Andreas email@hidden
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