Re: Custom Table View Cells and String Text Alignment and Breaking
Re: Custom Table View Cells and String Text Alignment and Breaking
- Subject: Re: Custom Table View Cells and String Text Alignment and Breaking
- From: Grant Erickson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:27:52 -0700
- Thread-topic: Custom Table View Cells and String Text Alignment and Breaking
On 8/6/09 5:08 PM, Grant Erickson wrote:
> 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:?
It would appear that drawInRect:withAttributes: does the trick, respecting
both alignment and line breaking.
Regards,
Grant
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