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.
Hi John,
This is called "tightening" in the API, and it's enabled by default on
text fields (actually, on any control) when the line break mode is one
of the three truncation line break modes in NSParagraphStyle.h. You
can control the threshold between tightening and truncation with the
setTighteningFactorForTruncation: method on NSMutableParagraphStyle.
Hope that helps,
-Peter
Cool!
Is there any way to enable this for an NSTextField in a window? Someone
off-list suggested using attributed strings to do this, but is that the
best way?
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