Re: Silly NSTextFieldCell tricks

FROM : glenn andreas
DATE : Thu Jan 31 20:55:01 2008

On Jan 31, 2008, at 1:27 PM, John Stiles wrote:

> 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.



With attributed strings, you can set the paragraph style to be one 
whose setLineBreakMode is one of the three truncation modes (which 
provides the ellipsis), and use can even use 
setTighteningFactorForTruncation to adjust how much it tries to reduce 
the intercharacter spacing before switching to inserting an ellipsis.

You can probably also manually change NSKernAttributeName property of 
the strings attributes as well.



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