On Dec 10, 2009, at 3:44 PM, Charlie Dickman wrote: > I use the following code to determine the height and width of a string in the > Snow Leopard version of an app > > NSMutableDictionary *textAttributes = [[[NSMutableDictionary alloc] > init] autorelease]; > [textAttributes setObject: [NSFont fontWithName: @"Garamond Bold" size: > 24] > forKey: > NSFontAttributeName]; > [textAttributes setObject: [NSColor blackColor] > forKey: > NSForegroundColorAttributeName]; > > > NSString *text = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"%d", h]; > NSSize textSize = [faceText sizeWithAttributes: > faceTextAttributes]; > > x -= faceTextSize.width / 2.; > y -= faceTextSize.height / 2.; > > I'm tearing my hair out trying to figure out how to accomplish the same thing > in the iPhone SDK. Can anybody help me?
First, get a UIFont representing the font you want. http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/UIKit/Reference/UIFont_Class/Reference/Reference.html Then measure the string with -[NSString sizeWithFont:] or some variant thereof. http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/UIKit/Reference/NSString_UIKit_Additions/Reference/Reference.html -- Greg Parker gpar...@apple.com Runtime Wrangler _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) 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 arch...@mail-archive.com
