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Re: Invisible Characters & Specifying Their "Width"
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Re: Invisible Characters & Specifying Their "Width"


  • Subject: Re: Invisible Characters & Specifying Their "Width"
  • From: Seth Willits <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 22:23:42 -0800

On Nov 2, 2006, at 7:48 PM, Martin Wierschin wrote:

But with many invisible characters (like, all others - the null character for example), they have no width at all, so drawing a character at the location where they normally would be just draws on top of the next character.

You'll want to create an NSTypesetter subclass that overrides:

- actionForControlCharacterAtIndex:
- boundingBoxForControlGlyphAtIndex:etc:

If its idea of a control glyph is different than your own, then you'll have to look to modifying the NSGlyphGenerator.

Hmmm....


Well, like Dominik (http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/message/cocoa/ 2006/4/10/160743), I don't see any layout change, but the methods are being called appropriately.




NSTypesetter subclass:

- (NSTypesetterControlCharacterAction) actionForControlCharacterAtIndex:(unsigned)charIndex;
{
CFStringInlineBuffer *buffer = [(CCTextStorage *)[[self layoutManager] textStorage] buffer];
unichar c = ' ';
c = CFStringGetCharacterFromInlineBuffer(buffer, charIndex);


if (c == ' ' || c == '\n' || c == '\r' || c == '\t') {
} else if (c < 0x20 || (0x007f <= c && c <= 0x009f) || [[NSCharacterSet illegalCharacterSet] characterIsMember:c]) {
return NSTypesetterWhitespaceAction;
}


   return [super actionForControlCharacterAtIndex:charIndex];
}


- (NSRect)boundingBoxForControlGlyphAtIndex:(unsigned)glyphIndex forTextContainer:(NSTextContainer *)tc proposedLineFragment:(NSRect) proposedRect glyphPosition:(NSPoint)glyphPosition characterIndex: (unsigned)charIndex
{
NSRect rect;
rect.origin = glyphPosition;
rect.size.height = proposedRect.size.height;


NSDictionary * attributes = [[self attributedString] attributesAtIndex:charIndex effectiveRange:NULL];
rect.size.width = [@"W" sizeWithAttributes:attributes].width;


   //NSLog(@"%@", NSStringFromRect(rect));

   return rect;
}




I guess I'll have to try the glyph generator...?



--
Seth Willits



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