On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 3:03 PM, George Nachman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi cocoa-dev,
>
> I'm currently drawing text one character at a time with
> -[NSAttributedString
> drawWithRect:options:], and it is really slow. I'm looking for a faster
> alternative.
>
> I draw one character at a time because I need exact control over horizontal
> positioning (regardless of whether the font is monospaced or not, I force
> characters onto a grid--this is non-negotiable) and I'm not aware of
> another
> way to achieve this that also supports my second requirement:
>
> I am using  -[NSAttributedString drawWithRect:options:]
> instead CGContextShowGlyphsWithAdvances() or CTLineDraw() because it
> supports NSStrokeWidthAttributeName.


Have you looked at CGContextSetTextDrawingMode and CGContextSetLineWidth?


> It also does a nice (but not as nice a
> NSTextView) job at rendering combining marks.
>
> My performance troubles are significant when there is a substantial amount
> of new text, so caching layouts would do me little good. I suspect there
> might be something lurking in NSLayoutManager/NSTypesetter/etc. that can
> help me, but I haven't found it.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> George
> _______________________________________________
>
> Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected])
>
> Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list.
> Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com
>
> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/kenferry%40gmail.com
>
> This email sent to [email protected]
>
_______________________________________________

Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected])

Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list.
Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com

Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

This email sent to [email protected]

Reply via email to