Silly NSTextFieldCell tricks

FROM : John Stiles
DATE : Thu Jan 31 20:27:51 2008

I've noticed that in table views, the NSTextFieldCell has the ability to
ever-so-slightly squash its contents horizontally, to fit inside the
table cell, before eventually giving up and truncating them with ellipses.

Is there any way for me to programmatically do the same thing to my own
NSTextFieldCell?

As I'm typing this, suddenly I'm thinking "maybe I could fake it by
altering the cell's bounds while leaving the frame alone"… but is there
a better way? Changing the bounds would make the text thinner, which
isn't quite the same as squeezing the letters more tightly together.