>
I must confess that I made the mistake of calculating the size of the text
using the attributed string,
but I did *not* assign the attributed string to the text layer, but instead I
assigned the orig. plain string.
That way, the text layer must have used a different font for rendering the
> On Sep 10, 2019, at 10:54 AM, Gabriel Zachmann wrote:
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>> I have had good results with CTLineGetTypographicBounds().
>
> This seems to be suitable only for single lines of text.
> But , usually, I've got 2 lines of text.
>
> I looked at Core Text a bit further, but I could not find how to
> On Sep 10, 2019, at 9:54 AM, Gabriel Zachmann wrote:
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> The excess width is sometimes more, sometimes a bit less, I could not find a
> pattern.
> I guess , it has something to do with the actual glyphs in the string.
How much bigger is it? By a fraction of a character width? Or is it more
Thanks a lot to both of you for responding, and sorry for my delay!
(In case you forget the context, I have enclosed my original question below.)
>> NSRect string_rect = CGRectIntegral( [mesg_string boundingRectWithSize:
>> drawRect_.size
> What is drawRect_ set to when this is called?
Here
> On Aug 28, 2019, at 12:33 PM, Gabriel Zachmann via Cocoa-dev
> wrote:
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> NSRect string_rect = CGRectIntegral( [mesg_string boundingRectWithSize:
> drawRect_.size
What is drawRect_ set to when this is called?
It's been a while since I used this, but IIRC the output width will be the
> On Aug 28, 2019, at 1:33 PM, Gabriel Zachmann via Cocoa-dev
> wrote:
>
> I am trying to determine the size of a piece of text using
> boundingRectWithSize.
>
> The problem is that this method does not return the correct width. (The
> height seems to be about right.) Sometimes, the width
I am trying to determine the size of a piece of text using boundingRectWithSize.
The problem is that this method does not return the correct width.
(The height seems to be about right.)
Sometimes, the width is only a little bit too wide, sometimes it is much too
wide.
And I could not find a
