Re: NSString/NSFont/Dingbats and the SnowFlake symbol
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:14:29 -0800, Dave DeLong said: You can also do: NSString * snowflake = @\u2744; You can also put the snowflake character itself within the @ (which I won't attempt here, because either my mail client or the listserve will surely destroy it). Just be sure your source file is encoded as UTF8, which is what gcc assumes. Otherwise pass -finput-charset to gcc to specify UTF16 or whatever encoding your source file is. However, I think this all requires 10.5 or later. -- Sean McBride, B. Eng s...@rogue-research.com Rogue Researchwww.rogue-research.com Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada ___ 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
NSString/NSFont/Dingbats and the SnowFlake symbol
Hi all, This seems like a lame question to be fair. I would like to be able to access the snowflake symbol from the 'Zapf Dingbats' font and simply draw it into a custom control applying attributes like font colour to it. Charecter details are: Name: 'SNOWFLAKE' Unicode: 2744 UTF8: E2 9D 84 What's the best way to achieve this in 10.4/10.5 and 10.6 simultaneously? Thanks, Stephen ___ 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
Re: NSString/NSFont/Dingbats and the SnowFlake symbol
On Nov 24, 2010, at 10:46 AM, Stephen Blinkhorn wrote:
Hi all,
This seems like a lame question to be fair. I would like to be able to
access the snowflake symbol from the 'Zapf Dingbats' font and simply draw it
into a custom control applying attributes like font colour to it.
Charecter details are:
Name: 'SNOWFLAKE'
Unicode: 2744
UTF8: E2 9D 84
What's the best way to achieve this in 10.4/10.5 and 10.6 simultaneously?
Try something like this: (written in Mail, untested, use at your own risk)
unichar snowflake = 0x2744;
NSString *snowflakeStr = [NSString stringWithCharacters:snowflake length:1UL];
NSDictionary *attributes = {add your attributes here, like font and color};
NSAttributedString *snowflakeAttributedStr = [[[NSAttributedString alloc]
initWithString:snowflakeStr attributes:attributes] autorelease];
[snowflakeAttributedStr drawInRect:{some rectangle}];
Alternately, if you need more control than that, you could use
NSLayoutManager/NSTextStorage to get a glyph for the character, and then draw
it using NSColor and NSBezierPath. But that might be overkill.
Nick Zitzmann
http://www.chronosnet.com/
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Re: NSString/NSFont/Dingbats and the SnowFlake symbol
On 24 Nov 2010, at 12:02, Nick Zitzmann wrote: On Nov 24, 2010, at 10:46 AM, Stephen Blinkhorn wrote: Hi all, This seems like a lame question to be fair. I would like to be able to access the snowflake symbol from the 'Zapf Dingbats' font and simply draw it into a custom control applying attributes like font colour to it. Charecter details are: Name: 'SNOWFLAKE' Unicode: 2744 UTF8: E2 9D 84 What's the best way to achieve this in 10.4/10.5 and 10.6 simultaneously? Try something like this: (written in Mail, untested, use at your own risk) unichar snowflake = 0x2744; NSString *snowflakeStr = [NSString stringWithCharacters:snowflake length:1UL]; Those are the two lines I needed, thanks Nick. This has nothing to do with Christmas either! Stephen ___ 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
Re: NSString/NSFont/Dingbats and the SnowFlake symbol
You can also do: NSString * snowflake = @\u2744; Cheers, Dave On Nov 24, 2010, at 10:11 AM, Stephen Blinkhorn wrote: On 24 Nov 2010, at 12:02, Nick Zitzmann wrote: On Nov 24, 2010, at 10:46 AM, Stephen Blinkhorn wrote: Hi all, This seems like a lame question to be fair. I would like to be able to access the snowflake symbol from the 'Zapf Dingbats' font and simply draw it into a custom control applying attributes like font colour to it. Charecter details are: Name: 'SNOWFLAKE' Unicode: 2744 UTF8: E2 9D 84 What's the best way to achieve this in 10.4/10.5 and 10.6 simultaneously? Try something like this: (written in Mail, untested, use at your own risk) unichar snowflake = 0x2744; NSString *snowflakeStr = [NSString stringWithCharacters:snowflake length:1UL]; Those are the two lines I needed, thanks Nick. This has nothing to do with Christmas either! Stephen ___ 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/davedelong%40me.com This email sent to davedel...@me.com ___ 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
Re: NSString/NSFont/Dingbats and the SnowFlake symbol
Beware the user that has removed all fonts that contain a snowflake... Maybe it would be better to roll your own. _murat On Nov 24, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Dave DeLong wrote: You can also do: NSString * snowflake = @\u2744; Cheers, Dave On Nov 24, 2010, at 10:11 AM, Stephen Blinkhorn wrote: On 24 Nov 2010, at 12:02, Nick Zitzmann wrote: On Nov 24, 2010, at 10:46 AM, Stephen Blinkhorn wrote: Hi all, This seems like a lame question to be fair. I would like to be able to access the snowflake symbol from the 'Zapf Dingbats' font and simply draw it into a custom control applying attributes like font colour to it. Charecter details are: Name: 'SNOWFLAKE' Unicode: 2744 UTF8: E2 9D 84 What's the best way to achieve this in 10.4/10.5 and 10.6 simultaneously? Try something like this: (written in Mail, untested, use at your own risk) unichar snowflake = 0x2744; NSString *snowflakeStr = [NSString stringWithCharacters:snowflake length:1UL]; Those are the two lines I needed, thanks Nick. This has nothing to do with Christmas either! Stephen ___ 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/davedelong%40me.com This email sent to davedel...@me.com ___ 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/murat%40pixar.com This email sent to mu...@pixar.com ___ 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
Re: NSString/NSFont/Dingbats and the SnowFlake symbol
On 24 Nov 2010, at 12:56, Murat Konar wrote: Beware the user that has removed all fonts that contain a snowflake... Yeah, I did wonder about such a thing. But why would anyone do a thing like that!? Stephen _murat On Nov 24, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Dave DeLong wrote: You can also do: NSString * snowflake = @\u2744; Cheers, Dave On Nov 24, 2010, at 10:11 AM, Stephen Blinkhorn wrote: On 24 Nov 2010, at 12:02, Nick Zitzmann wrote: On Nov 24, 2010, at 10:46 AM, Stephen Blinkhorn wrote: Hi all, This seems like a lame question to be fair. I would like to be able to access the snowflake symbol from the 'Zapf Dingbats' font and simply draw it into a custom control applying attributes like font colour to it. Charecter details are: Name: 'SNOWFLAKE' Unicode: 2744 UTF8: E2 9D 84 What's the best way to achieve this in 10.4/10.5 and 10.6 simultaneously? Try something like this: (written in Mail, untested, use at your own risk) unichar snowflake = 0x2744; NSString *snowflakeStr = [NSString stringWithCharacters:snowflake length:1UL]; Those are the two lines I needed, thanks Nick. This has nothing to do with Christmas either! Stephen ___ 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/davedelong%40me.com This email sent to davedel...@me.com ___ 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/murat%40pixar.com This email sent to mu...@pixar.com ___ 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
Re: NSString/NSFont/Dingbats and the SnowFlake symbol
On Nov 24, 2010, at 12:35 PM, Stephen Blinkhorn wrote: Beware the user that has removed all fonts that contain a snowflake... Yeah, I did wonder about such a thing. But why would anyone do a thing like that!? I wouldn't worry about it in this case. Zapf Dingbats is a system font (installed in /System/Library/Fonts) and cannot be easily uninstalled without breaking things elsewhere. Nick Zitzmann http://www.chronosnet.com/ ___ 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
Re: NSString/NSFont/Dingbats and the SnowFlake symbol
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Stephen Blinkhorn stephen.blinkh...@audiospillage.com wrote: On 24 Nov 2010, at 12:56, Murat Konar wrote: Beware the user that has removed all fonts that contain a snowflake... Yeah, I did wonder about such a thing. But why would anyone do a thing like that!? Does it matter? If you need to guarantee the existence of a snowflake glyph, provide one yourself. --Kyle Sluder ___ 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
Re: NSString/NSFont/Dingbats and the SnowFlake symbol
On Nov 24, 2010, at 1:58 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Stephen Blinkhorn stephen.blinkh...@audiospillage.com wrote: On 24 Nov 2010, at 12:56, Murat Konar wrote: Beware the user that has removed all fonts that contain a snowflake... Yeah, I did wonder about such a thing. But why would anyone do a thing like that!? Does it matter? If you need to guarantee the existence of a snowflake glyph, provide one yourself. Or, render the glyph in black on a white background (then save to an image to bundle with your app) Use that image as a mask while drawing colored swatches. There are other ways to do too via the various blending modes. ___ Ricky A. Sharp mailto:rsh...@instantinteractive.com Instant Interactive(tm) http://www.instantinteractive.com ___ 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
