Question

I’ve figured out how to use the NSBezierPath class to draw shapes in the drawRect function of my custom view class, however I can’t seem to figure out how to draw text. The following code is what I have so far for drawing the text (located in the drawRect function):

NSText *text = [NSText new]; [text setTextColor: [NSColor yellowColor]]; [text setText: @'Hello!']; 

I’m guessing that I may need to supply an NSRect or NSPoint to tell the NSText object where to draw itself, but I can’t find anything in the Cocoa documentation about how to do this.

Answer 1

You could try something along these lines:

//note we are using the convenience method, so we don't need to autorelease the object NSDictionary *attributes = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[NSFont fontWithName:@'Helvetica' size:26], NSFontAttributeName,[NSColor blackColor], NSForegroundColorAttributeName, nil];  NSAttributedString * currentText=[[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:@'Cat' attributes: attributes];  NSSize attrSize = [currentText size]; [currentText drawAtPoint:NSMakePoint(yourX, yourY)];