Hi,
First of all, I think I'm being a bit brain-dead here as I just *know* I've had
to do something similar to this in the past, or have seen something similar to
it at least, elsewhere, but I'm obviously using the wrong search terms in
Cocoabuilder and Cocoadev and my memory is obviously fading with age... So -
I am creating a view for printing index cards that basically takes an array of
attributed strings and prints each one on a 5 x 3 card. However, if an
attributed string is too long for one card, I want to wrap it across two cards
or more (however many it takes). This is where my brain-deadness comes in.
What's the best way of doing this? That is, what is the best way of seeing how
many NSRects of a given size it takes to fit one attributed string, and the
range of characters for each rect? The only thing that has come to mind is
using an NSLayoutManager with multiple text containers, creating a new text
container each time the layout manager finishes layout out a text container if
layout is not complete (i.e. using the same method you would use for a multiple
page view, a la TextEdit). I suppose I could use one text view, set at 5 x 3
inches, for the drawing, swapping in and out the text containers as
necessary... But this seems a heavy-handed approach
for a view that is only for printing and that will never be used for editing.
Is there a simpler method, something blindingly obvious that I'm overlooking?
Thanks for any input and all the best,
Keith
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