Most efficient way of measuring text

2009-05-12 Thread Alejandro Rodriguez
Hello all, I'm trying to measure lots of small text rects which vary in length so I'm reusing a single NSTextview to save memory and calling glyphRangeForTextContainer + usedRectForTextContainer to get the used Rect. Even though it works I find it a little slow because I'm measuring a

Re: Most efficient way of measuring text

2009-05-12 Thread Dave Keck
text rects. Has anyone come up with a very fast way to estimate the size of some text, more importantly the vertical size given a width. You didn't mention that you tried NSAttributedString (specifically, its -size method.) Does it suit your needs, or is it what you consider too slow? David

Re: Most efficient way of measuring text

2009-05-12 Thread Graham Cox
On 13/05/2009, at 7:16 AM, Dave Keck wrote: text rects. Has anyone come up with a very fast way to estimate the size of some text, more importantly the vertical size given a width. You didn't mention that you tried NSAttributedString (specifically, its -size method.) Does it suit your