Change NSTextField font size to fit

Question

Is there anything like the UILabel's adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth that can be used with a NSTextField?

Plow

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Answer 1

In short: no. You have to do some brute force work to determine a string's -sizeWithAttributes: -boundingRectWithSize:options:attributes: with a given font size (set as an NSFont for NSFontAttributeName).

I'd start with a standard system font size and work down or up from there, depending on whether it's smaller or larger than the desired rectangle.

Maquis

Pre-WWDC-2023 Update: It would be lovely to get iOS dynamic text in macOS. The system can optimize this far better than individual app devs can. – Maquis

Answer 2

Swift 4 solution:

It will resize one by one until it fits, or until minimumFontSize = 3.

    let minimumFontSize = 3

    var sizeNotOkay = true
    var attempt = 0

    while sizeNotOkay || attempt < 15 { // will try 15 times maximun
        let expansionRect = textField.expansionFrame(withFrame: textField.frame)

        let truncated = !NSEqualRects(NSRect.zero, expansionRect)

        if truncated {
            if let actualFontSize : CGFloat = textField.font?.fontDescriptor.object(forKey: NSFontDescriptor.AttributeName.size) as? CGFloat {
                textField.font = NSFont.systemFont(ofSize: actualFontSize - 1)

                if actualFontSize < minimumFontSize {
                    break
                }
            }
        } else {
            sizeNotOkay = false
        }

        attempt += 1
    }

Carley

Answer 3

I came up with my own solution (its not a good solution!, just in case anyone couldn't find a better solution)

extension NSTextField {
    func fontSizeToFit() {
        if stringValue.count > 90 {
            font = NSFont.systemFont(ofSize: 40)
        } else {
            font = NSFont.systemFont(ofSize: CGFloat(120 - stringValue.count))
        }
    }
}

Sibyls