Re: Is this a bug in NSTextField?

FROM : Douglas Davidson
DATE : Wed Jan 09 23:40:53 2008

On Jan 9, 2008, at 2:04 PM, Chen Wang wrote:

> I recently created a NSAttributedString with 
> NSObliquenessAttributeName
> applied to the *entire* string, and NSStrokeWidthAttributeName applied
> to *part* of the string. When I passed this string to [NSTextField
> setAttributedStringValue:], I supposed that all characters shown in 
> the
> NSTextField should have identical obliqueness angle, but what I 
> actually
> saw was that the obliqueness angle kept increasing across the entire
> text field from left to right. The reason for thinking this as a bug 
> is
> that if I add a '\n' at the end of the string, everything becomes OK 
> --
> the entire text shows consistent obliqueness angle. So, before 
> firing a
> bug, it's better to be confirmed here.


Sounds like a bug from the description.  Please file a Radar, 
preferably with a small test application attached.

Douglas Davidson