Re: How an I get an NSAttributedString into an NSView?
Re: How an I get an NSAttributedString into an NSView?
- Subject: Re: How an I get an NSAttributedString into an NSView?
- From: Charles Steinman <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:08:55 -0700 (PDT)
--- Lorenzo Thurman <email@hidden> wrote:
> I have a NSStatusItem that displays the weather
> forecast. I use an
> image of the current conditions (sunny, partly
> cloudy, etc) and an
> NSAttributedString to display the current
> temperature in the status
> bar using NSStatusItem's setImage and
> setAttributedTitle methods. Now
> I would like to animate the status item when the
> forecast changes. I
> need to animate a view, so now I have to use setView
> to create a
> view. Using the image by itself in the view is easy
> enough, but how
> do get the attr. string in a view? I'm looking at
> the CircleView
> example and that looks promising as a model, but is
> there a better
> way that I might accomplish this?
> Thanks
Easiest solution: AppKit's NSAttributedString category
includes methods for drawing an attributed string in a
given rect.
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSAttributedString_AppKitAdditions/Reference/Reference.html
Cheers,
Chuck
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