Re: Drawing text with '...' if it does not fit
Re: Drawing text with '...' if it does not fit
- Subject: Re: Drawing text with '...' if it does not fit
- From: Carsten G Pedersen <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 13:00:49 +0100
> On Jan 2, 2007, at 12:22, David Brennan wrote:
>
> > I am trying to draw a piece of text in a NSRect. If the text is too
> > long I don't want the text to wrap, I would like it to be truncated
> > and follewed by '...' so if the text is
> >
> > "a very long name", I want
> > "a very lo..."
>
> Try http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Reference/
> Appearance_Manager/Reference/reference.html#//apple_ref/c/func/
> TruncateThemeText
>
>
Alternatively to keep it all in the Cocoa domain you might want to draw an
attributed string with a paragraph style that specifies a line break mode
like NSLineBreakByTruncatingTail.
Carsten
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