> Why would you even expect that to work? NSGradient is not a colour. At > present there is no supported attribute for gradients.
Oh? You might want to let the folks at Apple know that ;) [[NSColor selectedMenuItemColor] set]; NSRectFill(someRect); -matt On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Graham Cox <graham....@bigpond.com> wrote: > > 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/bravobug%40gmail.com > > This email sent to bravo...@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ 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
