OK, I have spent the last night by digging into the cocoa text system
and this is what I could come up with.
I'm sure this is not the best way to do it, but the result is very
close to what I want to achieve.
Basically I use the NSLayoutmanager to find how it would lay out the
first line of t
On Oct 31, 2008, at 7:53 PM, Mudi Dandan wrote:
I just found this in the release notes:
"The Cocoa Text System now allows the last visible line to have an
ellipsis character appended if the entire content cannot fit into
the specified bounding box. The behavior can be controlled with -
tr
I just found this in the release notes:
"The Cocoa Text System now allows the last visible line to have an
ellipsis character appended if the entire content cannot fit into the
specified bounding box. The behavior can be controlled with -
truncatesLastVisibleLine for text cells. The -lineBre
Sure I did.
Seems that NSLineBreakByTruncatingMiddle in the NSParagraphStyle
overrides NSStringDrawingTruncatesLastVisibleLine.
Anyway, I think I can live with that :)
On Nov 1, 2008, at 3:32 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
On Oct 31, 2008, at 7:20 PM, Mudi Dandan wrote:
Thanks Adam, works gra
On Oct 31, 2008, at 7:20 PM, Mudi Dandan wrote:
Thanks Adam, works grate!
There is only one little flaw that it always truncates the tail and
I don't see a way to change this.
Did you try setting NSLineBreakByTruncatingMiddle on your
NSParagraphStyle? I don't recall trying that with
NS
Thanks Adam, works grate!
There is only one little flaw that it always truncates the tail and I
don't see a way to change this.
On Nov 1, 2008, at 2:50 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
On Oct 31, 2008, at 6:39 PM, Mudi Dandan wrote:
Hi,
I'm needing a hand with this. I'm trying to emulate the w
On Oct 31, 2008, at 6:39 PM, Mudi Dandan wrote:
Hi,
I'm needing a hand with this. I'm trying to emulate the wrapping and
truncation for icon labels in Finder's icon view.
My first question is: is there any method around for making a string
to line wrap, and to truncate the second line if
