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Re: String height in pixels


  • Subject: Re: String height in pixels
  • From: vance <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 12:37:09 -0700

Thanks. That worked very well with the sample on ADC. If anyone is interested here it is:

float heightForStringDrawing(NSString *myString, NSFont *myFont, float myWidth)
{
NSTextStorage *textStorage = [[[NSTextStorage alloc] initWithString:myString] autorelease];
NSTextContainer *textContainer = [[[NSTextContainer alloc] initWithContainerSize: NSMakeSize(myWidth, FLT_MAX)] autorelease];
NSLayoutManager *layoutManager = [[[NSLayoutManager alloc] init] autorelease];


	[layoutManager addTextContainer:textContainer];
	[textStorage addLayoutManager:layoutManager];

[textStorage addAttribute:NSFontAttributeName value:myFont range:NSMakeRange(0, [textStorage length])];
[textContainer setLineFragmentPadding:0.0];


[layoutManager glyphRangeForTextContainer:textContainer];
return [layoutManager usedRectForTextContainer:textContainer].size.height;
}


- (void)drawRect:(NSRect)rect
{
	[self drawRoundedRect:[self bounds] inView:self];

NSMutableParagraphStyle *paragraphStyle = [[NSParagraphStyle defaultParagraphStyle] mutableCopy];
[paragraphStyle setAlignment: NSCenterTextAlignment];
[paragraphStyle setLineBreakMode: NSLineBreakByWordWrapping];

NSFont *font = [NSFont fontWithName:@"Lucida Grande" size:15];

NSDictionary *textAttribs = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: font,
NSFontAttributeName, paragraphStyle, NSParagraphStyleAttributeName, nil];

NSString *dropImageText = @"Drop Image Here";
NSRect textDrawRect = NSInsetRect([self bounds], 20, 20);

float textHeight = heightForStringDrawing(dropImageText, font, textDrawRect.size.width);
textDrawRect.origin.y = (textDrawRect.size.height - textHeight) / 2;

[dropImageText drawInRect:textDrawRect withAttributes:textAttribs];
}


On Aug 9, 2007, at 11:36 AM, Nick Zitzmann wrote:


On Aug 9, 2007, at 12:26 PM, vance wrote:

Hi, I am drawing a string (NSString) using drawAtPoint. My question is how do I find the height of the string before I draw it?

You can use NSLayoutManager to do this. Search around the ADC Web site; I found some sample code there that showed how to do this a while ago...


Nick Zitzmann
<http://www.chronosnet.com/>





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 >Re: String height in pixels (From: Nick Zitzmann <email@hidden>)

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