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Re: How to truncate NSStrings?

Simon Fraser wrote:
>
> I'm quite familiar with [NSString substringWithRange]. That's not
> what I'm asking. I want some truncation methods that:
>
> i) can truncate based on measure string width, rather than number
> of characters.
>
> ii) are international-friendly (e.g. won't truncate in the middle
> of a required ligature, and will insert an appropriate ellipsis).
>

Hi Simon ;)

I recall hearing that one of the cocoa apis was documented as being able
to do the ellipsis thing (it was on this list months ago), but that it
wasn't implemented in 10.1.

NSLayoutManager is the class I would look at to try to figure a solution
that's aware of things like ligatures and figure out how wide strings
are. However, I don't think it has a function built in that will do what
you ask.


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AndyT (lordpixel - the cat who walks through walls)
A little bigger on the inside

(see you later space cowboy ...)
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 >Re: How to truncate NSStrings? (From: Andrew Pinski <email@hidden>)
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