Re: Outlined Text with 2 colors

FROM : Douglas Davidson
DATE : Thu Apr 21 22:23:57 2005

On Apr 21, 2005, at 1:09 PM, Lorenzo wrote:

> Hi,
> with TextEdit application, and with the Cocoa text APIs, I can 
> quite set the
> style "Outlined" to a string. But when I do so, I can choose one 
> only color:
> the border color. The internal area is transparent, like a hole.
>
> How can I set a color for the border and a color for the internal 
> area?
> I mean programmatically. Thank you.


See <AppKit/NSAttributedString.h>, the description of 
NSStrokeWidthAttributeName.  What you want is to have both stroke and 
fill, so you should set a negative value for that attribute.  The 
fill color will be the foreground color; the stroke color will be 
given by NSStrokeColorAttributeName, defaulting to the foreground 
color if that attribute is absent, so you should set both 
NSForegroundColorAttributeName and NSStrokeColorAttributeName.

Douglas Davidson