On 27 Mar 2008, at 16:12, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote:

Current I am using:

NSString *dummyString = [ NSString stringWithUTF8String: " " ];       
NSTextView *dummyTextView = [ [ NSTextView alloc ] initWithFrame: NSMakeRect(0,0,1e4,1e4) ];
[ dummyTextView setString: dummyString ];
[ dummyTextView setFont: usedFont ];
NSLayoutManager *dummyLayoutManager = [ dummyTextView layoutManager ];
[ dummyLayoutManager setUsesScreenFonts: useScreenFont ];
unsigned int length = [ dummyString length ];
NSRange glyphRange = [ dummyLayoutManager glyphRangeForCharacterRange: NSMakeRange(0,length) actualCharacterRange: NULL ];
unsigned int glyphIndex = glyphRange.location;
NSTextContainer *aTextContainer = [ dummyLayoutManager textContainerForGlyphAtIndex: glyphIndex effectiveRange: NULL ]; NSRect boundingRect = [ dummyLayoutManager boundingRectForGlyphRange: glyphRange inTextContainer: aTextContainer];
[dummyTextView release];
float widtOfDummyString = boundingRect.size.width;

This looks incredible clumsy. Do you know of any better way?

How about the following (largely untested; I did check that the glyph returned seemed sane):

  NSGlyph glyph = [usedFont glyphWithName:@"space"];
  NSSize size;

  [usedFont getAdvancements:&size forGlyphs:&glyph count:1];

("space" is the standard PostScript name for the space glyph; see, e.g. <http://www.adobe.com/devnet/opentype/archives/glyph.html>)

Alternatively you could use the Core Text function CTFontGetGlyphsForCharacters() (but you'd need a CTFontRef rather than an NSFont), or you could implement a lightweight NSGlyphStorage and use either the shared NSGlyphGenerator or the one from your layout manager.

Kind regards,

Alastair.

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http://alastairs-place.net



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