BTW, I've just documented this limitation in Radar:
rdar://5795937 AppKit string tightening should work with
non-truncating line break modes
This one is up to you—if you think it would be a useful addition, great;
if not, I guess you can punt it as "Behaves Correctly" or something.
John
Right, we went over this a month or two ago. But in this case, I
actually needed finer-grained control over the tightening—for instance,
I didn't want an ellipsis when the tightening threshold is exceeded.
Instead, when the tightening threshold is exceeded, I just want it to
use the maximum tig
John,
The tightening is controlled by -[NSParagraphStyle
tighteningFactorForTruncation].
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/
ApplicationKit/Classes/NSParagraphStyle_Class/Reference/
Reference.html#//apple_ref/occ/instm/NSParagraphStyle/
tighteningFactorForTruncation
Followup: this requires a bit of math but it works great in practice. I
have a lot more control over the tightening now, which is just what I
needed. Thanks!
John Stiles wrote:
Interesting! I didn't think to use kerning directly. Thank you for the
idea!! It makes sense since obviously I am try
Interesting! I didn't think to use kerning directly. Thank you for the
idea!! It makes sense since obviously I am trying to do something a
little more sophisticated than the default "tighten" functionality.
How does "line tightening" pick an appropriate kerning value? I'm
thinking you could us
On Mar 11, 2008, at 9:54 PM, John Stiles wrote:
Gah, I spoke too soon.
This "solution" actually disables tightening entirely. So I'm back
to square one. Please help!
You could try to manually squeeze the result by setting an attributed
string's NSKernAttributeName value, but that would b
Gah, I spoke too soon.
This "solution" actually disables tightening entirely. So I'm back to
square one. Please help!
John Stiles wrote:
Whoops, this is easy!
[myParagraphStyle setLineBreakMode:NSLineBreakByClipping];
I guess I didn't get enough sleep last night :)
I don't think th
Whoops, this is easy!
[myParagraphStyle setLineBreakMode:NSLineBreakByClipping];
I guess I didn't get enough sleep last night :)
I don't think this completely addresses my question—when the text field
gets too full, it looks like it does lose its tightening—but it's good
enough for m
I'm using line tightening in some of my dialogs and 99% of the time it
works great, but there are a few aspects of it that don't work for my
app. In particular, when line tightening kicks in, first it attempts to
shrink the text to fit the box, which is awesome. But when it still
doesn't fit ev
