On 9 Apr 2013, at 7:04 PM, Roland King wrote:
> I have an attributed string I'm laying out with a CTFrame. The string can 
> have a trailing space in it, possibly more than one, they are actually 
> \u3000, IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE. I need them to be treated like a real character 
> and laid out, even if that breaks onto a new line. Those 'spaces' are 
> placeholders for small images which can't be embedded in the string (iOS 
> doesn't allow images in attributed strings like it does on OSX) so I need 
> them laid out so I can find where they went and overlay the graphics. A 
> little messy, works better than I expected, apart from this. 

We do attachments using U+FFFC OBJECT REPLACEMENT CHARACTER (which Apple also 
names NSAttachmentCharacter on the desktop) and setting a custom CTRunDelegate 
to specify the metrics of the attachment image (width, ascent, descent). Then 
we run through the laid-out text to find the attachment runs and draw their 
images and so on. This is rather clumsy (why doesn't CTRunDelegate have a 
drawing callback?) but it gets the job done.

I think you can actually use any character rather than U+FFFC there, and it 
probably affects the line breaking algorithm accordingly.



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