On 18/12/2009, at 4:31 AM, Chris Purcell wrote: > I've tried setting the gradient as NSForegroundColorAttributeName in the > attributes dictionary when creating the string but as I expected that didn't > work. How would I go about filling the string with a gradient?
Why would you even expect that to work? NSGradient is not a colour. At present there is no supported attribute for gradients. You could create this effect by converting the string to its glyphs as a path and fill the path. Alternatively you can create a subclass of NSLayoutManager and override the method: - (void)showPackedGlyphs:(char *)glyphs length:(NSUInteger)glyphLenglyphRange:(NSRange)glyphRange atPoint:(NSPoint)point font:(NSFont *)font color:(NSColor*)color printingAdjustment:(NSSize)printingAdjustment and render the glyphs using a gradient. Doing that implies you'll need to set up a text system programatically, which is a fairly advanced topic - see: http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/TextArchitecture/TextArchitecture.pdf --Graham _______________________________________________ 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
