Re: horizontal sizeToFit of NSTextView or NSTextField

2008-04-21 Thread Jack Repenning
On Apr 20, 2008, at 11:37 AM, Manfred Schwind wrote: Getting the height of a text for a given width is easy and I've done that countless times. Also getting the width of a string (layed out in one line if it has no newlines) is no problem. But I have a different problem. I try to give an

Re: horizontal sizeToFit of NSTextView or NSTextField

2008-04-20 Thread Manfred Schwind
Now I want to be able to calculate the optimal width of the view so that the entire text is visible. This worked wonders for me: http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/message/cocoa/2008/3/31/202752 This also does not solve my problem. Getting the height of a text for a given width is easy and

Re: horizontal sizeToFit of NSTextView or NSTextField

2008-04-20 Thread Gary L. Wade
If you wish to vary both the width and height to be a more pleasing set of dimensions, similar to what an alert does, try word wrapping your text into a golden ratio rectangle using the area measurement generated by your single-line text measurement. Of course, based on a strict interpretation