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CTFrameMBS class

Super class: CFObjectMBS

Var longText as string = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..."

Var ct as new CFStringMBS(longText)
Var s as new CFAttributedStringMBS(ct, nil)

// layout master
Var framesetter as CTFramesetterMBS = CTFramesetterMBS.CreateWithAttributedString(s)

// a column
Var ColumnPath as new CGMutablePathMBS
Var Rect as new CGRectMBS(0, 0, g.Width, g.Height)
ColumnPath.AddRect nil, Rect

// context
#If XojoVersion >= 2019.02 Then
  Var CGContextHandle As ptr = g.Handle(Graphics.HandleTypes.CGContextRef)
  Var CGContext As CGContextMBS = CGContextMBS.contextWithCGContext(CGContextHandle)
#Else
  Var CGContextHandle As Integer = g.Handle(g.HandleTypeCGContextRef)
  Var CGContext As CGContextMBS = CGContextMBS.contextWithCGContext(CGContextHandle)
#EndIf

CGContext.SaveGState
// reset text matrix
Var a as CGAffineTransformMBS = CGAffineTransformMBS.Identity
CGContext.TextMatrix = a

Var Frame as CTFrameMBS = framesetter.CreateFrame(0, 0, ColumnPath, nil)

// draw
Frame.Draw(CGContext)

// cleanup
CGContext.RestoreGState
CGContext.Flush

• 6 properties
  • property FrameAttributes as Dictionary
  • property Path as CGPathMBS
  • property StringRangeLength as Integer
  • property StringRangeLocation as Integer
  • property VisibleStringRangeLength as Integer
  • property VisibleStringRangeLocation as Integer
• 4 methods
  • method Constructor   Private
  • method Draw(context as CGContextMBS)
  • method LineOrigins(location as Integer, length as Integer) as CGPointMBS()
  • method Lines as CTLineMBS()
• 1 shared methods
  • shared method Available as boolean
• 5 constants as shared methods
  • shared method kCTFrameClippingPathsAttributeName as string
  • shared method kCTFramePathClippingPathAttributeName as string
  • shared method kCTFramePathFillRuleAttributeName as string
  • shared method kCTFramePathWidthAttributeName as string
  • shared method kCTFrameProgressionAttributeName as string
• 5 constants

Fill rules

Frame Progression Types

Super class CFObjectMBS

• 5 properties
  • property Handle as Integer
  • property Hash as Integer
  • property Lasterror as Integer
  • property Type as Integer
  • property TypeDescription as String
• 9 methods
  • method close
  • method DeepCopy as CFObjectMBS
  • method EncodedData as MemoryBlock
  • method Equal(o as CFObjectMBS) as boolean
  • method ReleaseObject
  • method RetainCount as Integer
  • method RetainObject
  • method XML as CFBinaryDataMBS
  • method XMLdata as String
• shared method NewCFObject(handle as Integer) as CFObjectMBS

This class has no sub classes.

Blog Entries

• CoreText Completed

Some methods using this class:

• CTFramesetterMBS.CreateFrame(location as Integer, length as Integer, path as CGPathMBS, frameAttributes as dictionary = nil) as CTFrameMBS

Some examples using this class:

• /MacCG/Attributed String print
• /MacCG/CoreText/CoreText Dynamic Text Height
• /MacCG/CoreText/CoreText Test

Some related classes:

• class CFBinaryDataMBS
• class CFStringMBS
• class CGAffineTransformMBS
• class CGContextMBS
• class CGMutablePathMBS
• class CGPathMBS
• class CGPointMBS
• class CGRectMBS
• class CTFramesetterMBS
• class CTLineMBS

The items on this page are in the following plugins: MBS MacCF Plugin, MBS MacCG Plugin.

CTFontMBS   -   CTFramesetterMBS