Custom Table View Cells and String Text Alignment and Breaking
Custom Table View Cells and String Text Alignment and Breaking
- Subject: Custom Table View Cells and String Text Alignment and Breaking
- From: Grant Erickson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:08:43 -0700
- Thread-topic: Custom Table View Cells and String Text Alignment and Breaking
I am implementing a non-editable custom table view cell (a bit similar to
the network connection listing in the System Preferences Network preference
pane) in a single-column, no header NSTableView.
The cell consists of an image, another image, two stacked strings (left
aligned), another string (right aligned) and a custom-drawn graphic:
.------..--------------------------. .------.
.--.| || |.-----------------.| |
!__!| ||--------------------------|!_________________!| |
!______!!__________________________! !______!
Img Image Strings String Drawn
At this point, I've all the icons and graphics drawing correctly and the
text displaying with attributes (i.e. inverting when selected, etc.) using
drawAtPoint:withAttributes:.
However, with regard to the strings, particularly concerning the
right-alignment of the non-stacked string, nudging around the X points to
achieve the proper right-alignment seems like the wrong way to approach this
and that I should be specifying NSTextAlignment in some way when the string
is drawn.
In addition, paragraph style attributes (NSRightTextAlignment or
NSLineBreakByTruncatingMiddle) seem (perhaps unsurprisingly) to not apply to
drawAtPoint:withAttributes:.
Do I need to create or should I instead be creating three NSTextViews, one
for each string, and adding them as subviews to my custom cell's view rather
than trying to use drawAtPoint:withAttributes:?
Regards,
Grant Erickson
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