On 8/6/09 5:08 PM, Grant Erickson wrote: > I am implementing a non-editable custom table view cell (a bit similar to the > network connection listing in the System Preferences Network preference pane) > in a single-column, no header NSTableView. > > The cell consists of an image, another image, two stacked strings (left > aligned), another string (right aligned) and a custom-drawn graphic: > > .------..--------------------------. .------. > .--.| || |.-----------------.| | > !__!| ||--------------------------|!_________________!| | > !______!!__________________________! !______! > > Img Image Strings String Drawn > > At this point, I've all the icons and graphics drawing correctly and the text > displaying with attributes (i.e. inverting when selected, etc.) using > drawAtPoint:withAttributes:. > > However, with regard to the strings, particularly concerning the > right-alignment of the non-stacked string, nudging around the X points to > achieve the proper right-alignment seems like the wrong way to approach this > and that I should be specifying NSTextAlignment in some way when the string is > drawn. > > In addition, paragraph style attributes (NSRightTextAlignment or > NSLineBreakByTruncatingMiddle) seem (perhaps unsurprisingly) to not apply to > drawAtPoint:withAttributes:. > > Do I need to create or should I instead be creating three NSTextViews, one for > each string, and adding them as subviews to my custom cell's view rather than > trying to use drawAtPoint:withAttributes:?
It would appear that drawInRect:withAttributes: does the trick, respecting both alignment and line breaking. Regards, Grant _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
