Entry not vertically centered in Xamarin Forms MacOS

Question

Stumbled upon this bug https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/issues/10789 when trying to work with a centered entry.

Tried to solve it locally by doing a custom renderer but having some troubles along the way. This is what i currently have:

[assembly: Xamarin.Forms.ExportRenderer(typeof(Entry), typeof(CustomEntryRenderer))]
namespace Project.MacOS.Renderers
{
public class CustomEntryRenderer : EntryRenderer
{

    protected override void OnElementChanged(ElementChangedEventArgs<Entry> e)
    {
        base.OnElementChanged(e);
        var element = e.NewElement as Entry;

        if (Control != null && element != null)
        {
            Control.BackgroundColor = NSColor.Clear;
            Control.Bordered = false;

            var stringHeight = Control.AttributedStringValue.Size.Height;


            var titleRect = Bounds;

            var oldOriginY = this.Bounds.Y;
            var res = titleRect.Y + (Bounds.Size.Height - stringHeight) / 2.0;
            titleRect.Y = (System.nfloat)res;


            var res2 = titleRect.Size.Height - (titleRect.Y - oldOriginY);

            titleRect.Size.Height = res2;
        }
    }

    protected override void OnElementPropertyChanged(object sender, System.ComponentModel.PropertyChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        base.OnElementPropertyChanged(sender, e);
    }
}

}

So I followed this question: Set text vertical center in NSTextField

But having a few issues. First issue is that I am unable to set the titleRect.Size.Height = res2;as it is complaining about "Cannot modify the return value of ´CGRECT.Size´ because it is not a variable. Second issue is how I assign these newly added values to the control itself so that i can test it and see if it worked.

Answer 1

First issue is that I am unable to set the titleRect.Size.Height = res2;as it is complaining about "Cannot modify the return value of ´CGRECT.Size´ because it is not a variable.

About this, that means you can not assign Height directly.

We need to set the total paramater of Size as follows:

titleRect = new CoreGraphics.CGRect(titleRect.X, titleRect.Y, titleRect.Width, res2 );

Second issue is how I assign these newly added values to the control itself so that i can test it and see if it worked.

From shared discussion, we also can custom a NSTextFieldCell and then set for NSTextField.

public class CustomEntryRenderer :EntryRenderer
{
    public CustomEntryRenderer()
    {
    }

    protected override void OnElementChanged(ElementChangedEventArgs<Entry> e)
    {
        base.OnElementChanged(e);

        var element = e.NewElement as Entry;
        if (Control != null & element != null)
        {
            Control.BackgroundColor = NSColor.Clear;

            VerticallyCenteredTextfieldCell verticallyCenteredTextfieldCell = new VerticallyCenteredTextfieldCell(Control);
            Control.Cell = verticallyCenteredTextfieldCell;
            Control.StringValue = element.Text;
            Control.Bordered = true;
        }            
    }

}

public class VerticallyCenteredTextfieldCell : NSTextFieldCell
{
    private NSTextField control;

    public VerticallyCenteredTextfieldCell(NSTextField control)
    {
        this.control = control;
    }

    public override CoreGraphics.CGRect TitleRectForBounds(CoreGraphics.CGRect theRect)
    {
        var stringheight = control.AttributedStringValue.Size.Height;
        CoreGraphics.CGRect titleRect = base.TitleRectForBounds(theRect);
        var oldOriginY = control.Frame.Y;
        titleRect.Y = control.Frame.Y + (control.Frame.Size.Height - stringheight) / 2;
        var height = titleRect.Size.Height - (titleRect.Y - oldOriginY);
        titleRect = new CoreGraphics.CGRect(titleRect.X, titleRect.Y, titleRect.Width, height);

        return titleRect;
    }

    public override void DrawInteriorWithFrame(CoreGraphics.CGRect cellFrame, NSView inView)
    {
        base.DrawInteriorWithFrame(TitleRectForBounds(cellFrame), inView);
    }

}

The effect: