My problem: I am building a MacOS app in Swift 3 and am looking to auto-resize (change font-size) text in a NSTextFieldCell
, such that the text is always visible in its container.
I have come across Get NSTextField contents to scale but am not sure how to apply this to Swift 3 within my app. Does anyone have any advice or an explanation (or even link) on how to achieve my goal?
I've made a function that return a NSFont object :
func calculateFont(toFit textField: NSTextField, withString string: NSString, minSize min: Int, maxSize max: Int) -> NSFont {
for i in min...max {
var attr: [String: Any] = [:] as Dictionary
attr[NSFontSizeAttribute] = NSFont(name: textField.font!.fontName, size: CGFloat(i))!
let strSize = string.size(withAttributes: [NSFontAttributeName: NSFont.systemFont(ofSize: CGFloat(i))])
let linesNumber = Int(textField.bounds.height/strSize.height)
if strSize.width/CGFloat(linesNumber) > textField.bounds.width {
return (i == min ? NSFont(name: "\(textField.font!.fontName)", size: CGFloat(min)) : NSFont(name: "\(textField.font!.fontName)", size: CGFloat(i-1)))!
}
}
return NSFont(name: "\(textField.font!.fontName)", size: CGFloat(max))!
}
You can use it like that :
// set multines
self.textField.lineBreakMode = .byWordWrapping // this looks like it doesn't work, set it in the storyboard instead
self.textField.maximumNumberOfLines = 100
// set font
self.textField.font = self.calculateFont(toFit: self.textField, withString: self.textField.stringValue as NSString, minSize: 8, maxSize: 50)
Tell me if that works for you