How an I get an NSAttributedString into an NSView?

• Lorenzo Thurman How an I get an NSAttributedString into an NSView? Oct 11 2007, 01:49
  I have a NSStatusItem that displays the weather forecast. I use an
  image of the current conditions (sunny, partly cloudy, etc) and an
  NSAttributedString to display the current temperature in the status
  bar using NSStatusItem's setImage and setAttributedTitle methods. Now
  I would like to animate the status item when the forecast changes. I
  need to animate a view, so now I have to use setView to create a
  view. Using the image by itself in the view is easy enough, but how
  do get the attr. string in a view? I'm looking at the CircleView
  example and that looks promising as a model, but is there a better
  way that I might accomplish this?
  Thanks
  
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    -- Henry David Thoreau
  
  Lorenzo Thurman
  <lorenzo...>
• Charles Steinman Re: How an I get an NSAttributedString into an NSView? Oct 11 2007, 02:08
  --- Lorenzo Thurman <lorenzo...> wrote:
  
  

  > I have a NSStatusItem that displays the weather
  > forecast. I use an
  > image of the current conditions (sunny, partly
  > cloudy, etc) and an
  > NSAttributedString to display the current
  > temperature in the status
  > bar using NSStatusItem's setImage and
  > setAttributedTitle methods. Now
  > I would like to animate the status item when the
  > forecast changes. I
  > need to animate a view, so now I have to use setView
  > to create a
  > view. Using the image by itself in the view is easy
  > enough, but how
  > do get the attr. string in a view? I'm looking at
  > the CircleView
  > example and that looks promising as a model, but is
  > there a better
  > way that I might accomplish this?
  > Thanks
  

  
  Easiest solution: AppKit's NSAttributedString category
  includes methods for drawing an attributed string in a
  given rect.
  
  http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Cla
  sses/NSAttributedString_AppKitAdditions/Reference/Reference.html
  
  Cheers,
  Chuck
  
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• Lorenzo Thurman Re: How an I get an NSAttributedString into an NSView? Oct 11 2007, 04:46
  On Oct 10, 2007, at 7:08 p, Charles Steinman wrote:
  
  

  > --- Lorenzo Thurman <lorenzo...> wrote:
  >
  >> I have a NSStatusItem that displays the weather
  >> forecast. I use an
  >> image of the current conditions (sunny, partly
  >> cloudy, etc) and an
  >> NSAttributedString to display the current
  >> temperature in the status
  >> bar using NSStatusItem's setImage and
  >> setAttributedTitle methods. Now
  >> I would like to animate the status item when the
  >> forecast changes. I
  >> need to animate a view, so now I have to use setView
  >> to create a
  >> view. Using the image by itself in the view is easy
  >> enough, but how
  >> do get the attr. string in a view? I'm looking at
  >> the CircleView
  >> example and that looks promising as a model, but is
  >> there a better
  >> way that I might accomplish this?
  >> Thanks
  >
  > Easiest solution: AppKit's NSAttributedString category
  > includes methods for drawing an attributed string in a
  > given rect.
  >
  > http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/
  > ApplicationKit/Classes/NSAttributedString_AppKitAdditions/Reference/
  > Reference.html
  >
  > Cheers,
  > Chuck
  >
  >
  >
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  >
  >
  

  Thanks, this looks even better.
  
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  <lorenzo...>