Re: Height and location of text within a line in NSLayoutManager ignoring spacing?

FROM : Douglas Davidson
DATE : Mon Feb 18 21:53:38 2008

On Feb 18, 2008, at 11:53 AM, Keith Blount wrote:

> Many thanks for your reply, much appreciated. The trouble is that I 
> don't just need the measurements of the text that is laid out in the 
> text container, but also of the arbitrary control string that I am 
> going to draw behind the text, using NSString's -
> drawWithAttributes:. Would I have to set up a separate layout 
> manager to calculate all of the measurements for the control glyphs? 
> (I suppose I could cache that information given that the control 
> glyph attributes and thus sizes won't change.)


That sounds like a reasonable plan, if it really is an arbitrary text 
string.  Another option might be to use 
drawWithRect:options:attributes:, which can do baseline-relative 
drawing.

Douglas Davidson