Re: Drawing strings to an NSView
Re: Drawing strings to an NSView
- Subject: Re: Drawing strings to an NSView
- From: "Alastair J.Houghton" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:13:34 +0100
On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 01:33 pm, Peter Fischer wrote:
Hello -
I'm currently drawing a string straight on to an NSView using an
NSAttributedString / Additions using either the drawAtPoint or
drawInRect selectors. This is working fine, but I'm looking to add a
drop shadow to the strings being drawn to the NSView. For example,
I'm looking for pretty much the exact same effect that Apple uses in
the Dock, i.e. white text with a drop shadow. Is there a way to set
this up in the NSAttributed string, or, is there a different way to
set up the NSView to display a drop shadow, etc... Any help on this
would be greatly appreciated.
The drop shadow effect doesn't have a documented interface in Jaguar,
although you can use undocumented Core Graphics functions to implement
one. See
http://cocoadevcentral.com/articles/000053.php
for more information. This interface may have changed or may not exist
in Panther... if you have ADC-TV access, you might like to check the
graphics-related sessions for further information.
Kind regards,
Alastair.
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