I'd like an NSTextField to display a tooltip showing its entire text whenever it's truncating. I think that NSTableView has this behavior built in, if you simply don't set a tooltip on a cell. But NSTextField does not.
It *sure would be nice* if NSTextField had an observable 'isTruncating" property which I could bind to! Am I not seeing some feature which will give the desired behavior? If not, the only solution I can think of is to do the whole damned text measurement thing, taking as parameters the font, the typesetter behavior for the given Mac OS X version, and see if the calculated width exceeds the field width. This kind of thing usually requires, in addition, a fudge factor and/or term, adjusted experimentally to match the actual truncation threshold. Ugh. Rather than the above, I think I'll just leave the tooltip "always on" and hope that users don't get too annoyed. Any better ideas? Thanks, Jerry Krinock _______________________________________________ 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
