Re: Arabic in Cocoa. Any Experiences (also Panther)?
Re: Arabic in Cocoa. Any Experiences (also Panther)?
- Subject: Re: Arabic in Cocoa. Any Experiences (also Panther)?
- From: Greg Titus <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 10:38:21 -0700
On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 08:02 AM, Bernd Carl wrote:
Hi folks,
I4m thinking about developing some kind of arabic learning thing for
X, but it4s kind of hard to find any good sources about developing
arabic software. Maybe it4s not that bad after all but I hate the idea
to start something and then give up due to too much disappointment :-)
It seems KDE/qt is a good platform for bidirectional things but my
first choice would be my OS X. So my question is if anybody has any
good experiences with the cocoa framework or is it all done by hand
(the bidi support). What about Panther, is it to be more supportable
of such things. It doesn4t matter to me if I need to wait for the
update.
Thanks, Bernd.
I don't actually know Arabic, or any other right-to-left language, but
it _appears_ to work just great if you just use the built-in NSTextView
class. Try switching to an Arabic or Hebrew input method and typing in
TextEdit, for instance.
We support bidi text In OmniGraffle -- you can use the text tool with
the Arabic input method and type right-to-left onto the canvas. All we
had to do was use an NSTextView for input, and customize our routines
for growing the text as you type so that it checks the NSLayoutManager
for its "NSGlyphAttributeBidiLevel" in order to grow in the right
direction. If you have fixed size text areas, you wouldn't have to do
anything special at all.
Hope this helps,
- Greg
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