RE: Is this a bug in NSTextField?

FROM : Chen Wang
DATE : Wed Jan 09 23:57:19 2008

Further tests shown that the problem seems to be Tiger specific, on both
powerPC and Intel. Tests with Leopard and Panther are just fine without
seeing the problem.

Chen



> Dear List,


> 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.

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