Re: Silly NSTextFieldCell tricks
Re: Silly NSTextFieldCell tricks
- Subject: Re: Silly NSTextFieldCell tricks
- From: Peter Ammon <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:53:38 -0800
On Jan 31, 2008, at 11:27 AM, John Stiles wrote:
I've noticed that in table views, the NSTextFieldCell has the
ability to ever-so-slightly squash its contents horizontally, to
fit inside the table cell, before eventually giving up and
truncating them with ellipses.
Is there any way for me to programmatically do the same thing to my
own NSTextFieldCell?
As I'm typing this, suddenly I'm thinking "maybe I could fake it by
altering the cell's bounds while leaving the frame alone"… but is
there a better way? Changing the bounds would make the text
thinner, which isn't quite the same as squeezing the letters more
tightly together.
Hi John,
This is called "tightening" in the API, and it's enabled by default
on text fields (actually, on any control) when the line break mode is
one of the three truncation line break modes in NSParagraphStyle.h.
You can control the threshold between tightening and truncation with
the setTighteningFactorForTruncation: method on NSMutableParagraphStyle.
Hope that helps,
-Peter
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