hi Jerry, Your right; NSTextField does not have that feature (it is called "expansion tool tips" in NSTableView). Please log a bug requesting it in AppKit.
corbin On Sep 16, 2011, at 10:47 AM, Jerry Krinock wrote: > 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/corbind%40apple.com > > This email sent to corb...@apple.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
