20 Drawing Text with Attributes
In Chapter 17, we covered drawing shapes with NSBezierPath. A natural progression from there would be to draw text. In this chapter you will add support for drawing text on the die face to extend the range to [0, 9]. At the end of this chapter, your application will look like Figure 20.1.
Figure 20.1 Completed application
NSFont
Overall, the class NSFont has only two types of methods:
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class methods for getting the font you want
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methods for getting metrics on the font, such as letter height
The following are commonly used methods in NSFont:
class func ...
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