Cocoa® Programming for Mac® OS X, Fourth Edition

Chapter 20. Drawing Text with Attributes

The next step is to get the string to appear in our view. At the end of this chapter, your application will look like Figure 20.1. The character being displayed will change as you type.

Figure 20.1. Completed Application

NSFont

Overall, the class NSFont has only two types of methods:

1. Class methods for getting the font you want

2. Methods for getting metrics on the font, such as letter height

The following are commonly used methods in NSFont:

+ (NSFont *)userFontOfSize:(float)fontSize+ (NSFont *)userFixedPitchFontOfSize:(float)fontSize+ (NSFont *)messageFontOfSize:(float)fontSize+ (NSFont *)toolTipsFontOfSize:(float)fontSize ...