Re: CATextLayer metrics

FROM : Scott Anguish
DATE : Fri Feb 29 23:30:24 2008

On Feb 29, 2008, at 2:00 PM, Karl Goiser wrote:
> The irksome thing is that rolling your own text layer means 
> duplicating pretty-well all of CATextLayer (maybe that's not much!) 
> - all for the want of some details of how the text is rendered... 
> If details were published, it would be pretty easy to subclass and 
> reuse - which is, of course, one of the main features and objectives 
> of object-oriented programming.
>
>

   It really isn't anything significant.  You can file a bug asking for 
more rendering details though..

   You have very little to subclass and override mind you.

   There was no interest in rebuilding any significant text layout there..