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Re: NSLayoutManager and whitespace
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Re: NSLayoutManager and whitespace


  • Subject: Re: NSLayoutManager and whitespace
  • From: Scott Thompson <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 07:27:37 -0500


On Apr 13, 2006, at 6:16 AM, Ondra Cada wrote:

Scott,

On 13.4.2006, at 9:52, Scott Thompson wrote:

What I want to do is measure some text which will be drawn later. The problem I'm having is for lines of text with trailing whitespace. The simplest case would be a single word with a space after it i.e. "Preferences_" (the underscore character in this case represents a space)

When I measure this string with a text layout object, it returns a width of something like 67 (for a particular font etc...).

If I then come back and draw that string into a field that is 67 points wide, the string hyphenates and wraps.

In my experience, NSLayoutManager indeed ignores any number of trailing spaces, but it goes both ways: they neither are taken into account when you get the usedRectForTextContainer:, but they *also* are ignored when the text is actually laid out. Namely, therefore, there should be no wrapping/hyphenation caused by trailing spaces either.


(Which is kind of natural, for these are not two different actions, but rather just twice the very same one: Layout Manager lays out the text somehow; usedRectForTextContainer: just returns the rectangle into which the text has been placed. *If* it wrapped/ hyphenated, it would return an appropriate /higher/ usedRectForTextContainer.)

Do you perhaps use a *different* service when you are "drawing the string into 67 points"? That would explain the problem.

No, but what you are saying makes more sense than what my brain came up with in the wee hours of the morning. The measured size is passed back to some code that arranges the text with some other elements. Perhaps by the time I'm asked to draw, the "draw into" rect is different from the originally measured rect. Let me go back and check that carefully to determine if that might be the case.


Scott

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