Re: What's wrong with "symbol" fonts?
Re: What's wrong with "symbol" fonts?
- Subject: Re: What's wrong with "symbol" fonts?
- From: Douglas Davidson <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 17:01:23 -0700
On Wednesday, June 26, 2002, at 04:19 PM, Chaz wrote:
I can't seem to get any of the fonts that display symbols (i.e.
Wingdings, Webdings, Monotype Sorts, Zapf Dingbats) to work. There are
some symbols that would be useful that I'd like to use in an NSView.
I'm using an NSMutableAttributedString and it's drawAtPoint: method to
draw text to the view, but anything drawn is not in a symbol font; It's
in a regular alpha-numerical font. I've also noticed that TextEdit
can't display these fonts either. Is it possible to use these fonts
somehow?
Yes, it is. Just keep in mind that Cocoa text is based on Unicode. To
display a particular symbol, you need to use the Unicode character for
that symbol. If you are entering them in TextEdit, you may find a
Symbol keyboard on your system that may help. Programmatically, you can
use stringWithFormat:@"%C" or various other methods.
Also, is it possible to draw text upside-down in an NSView?
Upside down, sideways, or anything in between, by changing the
transform. Take a look at the CircleView example, for example.
Douglas Davidson
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