Re: drawing text into an NSView

FROM : Douglas Davidson
DATE : Mon Nov 18 10:26:03 2002

On Saturday, November 16, 2002, at 02:31  AM, Benjámin Salánki wrote:

> I am playing around with cocoa graphics, and was looking for a way to
> draw text at a given point of my NSView subclass, but I couldn't find
> anything on this in the docs. The topic Drawing Text reads
> documentation forthcoming.


The AppKit has methods to do this in categories on NSString
(drawAtPoint:withAttributes:, drawInRect:withAttributes:) and
NSAttributedString (drawAtPoint:, drawInRect:) as defined in the header
NSStringDrawing.h.  These are convenience APIs intended to make it
simple to draw small quantities of text; if you are going to be
displaying large quantities of text, you may wish to consider other
means.

Douglas Davidson