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This issue applies to github.com/golang/freetype, if that is still under development.
I want to accomplish the following (superficially) easy tasks:
Given a string and a fully specified font/context, determine the rendered string's bounds, taking into account ascenders, descenders, etc.; something along the lines of NSString's -sizeWithAttributes: method.
Given an appropriately sized rect, render a string in that rect, compensating for ascenders, descenders, etc; something like NSString's -drawInRect:withAttributes: method.
I will use this to render a simple, short string into a texture of just the right size, and then upload that texture onto a window for use as a label at a particular origin.
MeasureString looks close, but it only provides the width, not the height. (And I don't see a way to get the line height / leading from a font.) And DrawString is close, but the dot's y offset is the baseline of the text, which I don't see a handy way to calculate.
The fact that these are top-level APIs in Cocoa suggests that these are common needs and that they cover a large portion of use cases. Maybe this should be handled with examples, or maybe with new fundamental APIs, or maybe with convenience APIs. I don't know enough to say.
Second isn't. I would love for someone to provide me a "with this font, at whatever face point size is appropriate (but still let me pick DPI & Hinting?), render this text into a box that shall not exceed H pixels tall and/or W pixels wide". For my current need, I am specifically looking to constrain height only.
For now, I wrote a sort.Search gimmick that looks for a point size between 0 and 72 (one inch tall text) at small increments.
This issue applies to github.com/golang/freetype, if that is still under development.
I want to accomplish the following (superficially) easy tasks:
NSString
's-sizeWithAttributes:
method.NSString
's-drawInRect:withAttributes:
method.I will use this to render a simple, short string into a texture of just the right size, and then upload that texture onto a window for use as a label at a particular origin.
MeasureString
looks close, but it only provides the width, not the height. (And I don't see a way to get the line height / leading from a font.) AndDrawString
is close, but the dot's y offset is the baseline of the text, which I don't see a handy way to calculate.The fact that these are top-level APIs in Cocoa suggests that these are common needs and that they cover a large portion of use cases. Maybe this should be handled with examples, or maybe with new fundamental APIs, or maybe with convenience APIs. I don't know enough to say.
/cc @nigeltao
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