how-to-get-the-width-of-an-nsstring

Hi David -

Here's a relatively simple approach. Just create an NSAttributedString with the appropriate font and ask for its size:

- (CGFloat)widthOfString:(NSString *)string withFont:(NSFont *)font { NSDictionary *attributes = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:font, NSFontAttributeName, nil]; return [[[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:string attributes:attributes] size].width; }

　　

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Send the string a sizeWithAttributes: message, passing a dictionary containing the attributes with which you want to measure the string.

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By "width" do you mean the number of characters in the string?

NSUInteger len = [myString length];

NSString docs

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Sorry my question was not detailed enough and is not exactly what I'm trying to do. I am using a text storage, layout manager and a text container. The solution is to use the layout manager to determine the rectangle that bounds the rect. Here is the code.

NSTextStorage *textStorage = [[NSTextStorage alloc] initWithString:@"hello"];NSLayoutManager *layoutManager = [[NSLayoutManager alloc] init];NSTextContainer *textContainer = [[NSTextContainer alloc] init];[layoutManager addTextContainer:textContainer];[textContainer release];[textStorage addLayoutManager:layoutManager];[layoutManager release];//Figure out the bounding rectangleNSRect stringRect = [layoutManager boundingRectForGlyphRange:NSMakeRange(0, [layoutManager numberOfGlyphs]) inTextContainer:textContainer];

　　

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UIKit has a nice addition to NSString, making sizeWithAttributes: a bit lighter:

CGSize titleSize = [title sizeWithFont:titleFont constrainedToSize:contentCellSize lineBreakMode:UILineBreakModeWordWrap];