On 24 Mar 2010, at 16:16, Jerry Krinock wrote: > > On 2010 Mar 24, at 08:15, Mike Abdullah wrote: > >> Have you tried using an attributed string to render that character at a >> particular size or font? Rather than resort to an image attachment, it might >> well allow you to force the arrow to show up as you want it. > > Thank you, Mike. Not with this particular character. I just looked at it in > a few dozen different fonts and found that it looks best, indeed probably > good enough, in Arial font. > > But shlepping around an attributed string is going to make my code really > ugly, and in general this approach is going to be hit-or-miss. One easy fix > would be to change the font of the entire text fields and menus where this > character might be used. Arial font is fine with me, but then my app is > going to start looking different than other apps, and may break if Arial is > not available? > > Maybe I could write a value transformer which would take in a NSString, > search it for certain characters, and output an attributed string with runs > to make these characters Arial.
Even better, write an NSFormatter subclass which has -attributedStringForObjectValue:withDefaultAttributes: exactly for your sort of scenario. Use the default attributes to create an attributed string from your model string. Then, modify any special characters to use Arial. > > But it sure would be nice if there was a way to do this by making my own > character as I proposed in my first paragraph. That would seem to keep the > problem encapsulated into the proper domain. Any fontologists out there? I'm not convinced it would be "encapsulated" since you are talking setting some global state for your app._______________________________________________ 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
