Determining the pixel length of a string in Cocoa (MAC OSX)

Question

I need to figure out the pixel length of an NSString in Cocoa on OSX and I have found a couple of links that describe how to do this using the IPhone sdk but I didn't see anything about how to do this when not targeting the IPhone. Can anyone link me to some docs that would be relevant. I did find anything in the NSString docs.

Answer 1

Here is what i use to get the size of a string...

NSSize size = [@"Some text" sizeWithAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:[NSFont fontWithName:@"Helvetica Neue Bold" size:24.0f] forKey:NSFontAttributeName]];

NOTE: If you are adding the string to a textfield, i have found that you need to add about 10 to size.width for it to fit.

Answer 2

-[NSString sizeWithAttributes:]