Never mind, ignore that. Use drawInRect instead of drawAtPoint. My guess is
that when when you draw at a point, Cocoa obviously doesn't have a boundary to
right (or center) align the text to, so it just defaults to left-aligned.
On Mar 8, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Kevin Wojniak wrote:
> You could try using -[NSMutableAttributedString setAlignment:range:]
>
>
> On Mar 8, 2010, at 12:27 PM, Neil Clayton wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello All!
>>
>> I seem unable to align text when drawing using drawAt:point. The NSTextView
>> shows it OK (so the attributes appear correct), but drawing of the text
>> doesn't show alignment...
>>
>> My code is:
>>
>> - (void) awakeFromNib {
>> NSNotificationCenter *nc = [NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter];
>> [nc addObserver:self selector:@selector(updateText:)
>> name:NSTextViewDidChangeTypingAttributesNotification object:nil];
>> [nc addObserver:self selector:@selector(updateText:)
>> name:NSTextDidChangeNotification object:nil];
>>
>> NSString *str = @"This is a test\nAnd this text should be right
>> aligned\nBut for some reason, in the image, isn't";
>> NSMutableParagraphStyle *pStyle = [[NSMutableParagraphStyle new]
>> autorelease];
>> [pStyle setAlignment:NSRightTextAlignment];
>> NSDictionary *attrs = [NSDictionary
>> dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:pStyle, NSParagraphStyleAttributeName, nil];
>> NSAttributedString *as = [[[NSAttributedString alloc]
>> initWithString:str attributes:attrs] autorelease];
>> [[text textStorage] setAttributedString:as];
>> }
>>
>> - (void) updateText:(NSNotification*)aNotification {
>> [self textChanged:self];
>> }
>>
>> - (IBAction) textChanged:(id)sender {
>> NSAttributedString *string = [text attributedString];
>> NSSize bounds = [string size];
>>
>> if(bounds.width > 0 && bounds.height > 0) {
>> NSImage *image = [[[NSImage alloc] initWithSize:bounds]
>> autorelease];
>> [image lockFocus];
>> @try {
>> [string drawAtPoint:NSZeroPoint];
>> } @finally {
>> [image unlockFocus];
>> }
>>
>> [view setImage:image];
>> } else {
>> [view setImage:nil];
>> }
>> }
>>
>> A sample of what I see when I run this is here:
>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/421935/DrawingText/DrawingTest.png
>>
>> I must be missing something really obvious. Any ideas?
>>
>> Neil Clayton
>> [email protected]
>>
>>
>>
>>
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