Re: Font Size Problem in NSTableView
Re: Font Size Problem in NSTableView
- Subject: Re: Font Size Problem in NSTableView
- From: David Emme <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 09:14:00 -0700
--- On 5/4/06 2:23 AM (-0500), Mike Wright wrote:
>I have an approach that I came up with by trial and error. I use it
>to calculate table row heights, and it seems to work pretty well.
>Some fonts, like the aforementioned Ayuthaya 18 (which has zero
>leading, by the way), draw with the descenders just barely inside the
>frame, with a big chunk of white above the text, but at least they
>don't get truncated.
>
>Here's how I calculate row height:
>
> // create new font based on settings, with NSString *fieldsFontName
> // and float fieldsFontSize
> NSFont *newFont = [NSFont fontWithName:fieldsFontName
> size:fieldsFontSize];
>
> // make some adjustment for fonts with low baseline
> float ascender = [newFont ascender];
> float leading = [newFont leading];
> float descender = (-[newFont descender]);
> float rowHeight = ascender + descender + leading + (fieldsFontSize /
> 4.0) + 0.5;
>
> // make sure that we don't end up with something really stupid
> float defaultLineHeight = [newFont defaultLineHeightForFont];
> if (rowHeight < defaultLineHeight)
> rowHeight = defaultLineHeight;
>
> // set the row height
> [listTableView setRowHeight:rowHeight];
Thanks! That pretty much solves the problem for me.
-Dave
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