Howto change from proportional to tabulated digits in menu items?

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I want to change from proportional to tabulated digits in menu items? It's possible?

Your question asked for how to add tabs to format your menu items. Although the accepted answer shows how to get around needing tabs it doesn’t answer your question as it was asked. If the answer satisfies your need please consider editing the question so that the answer and the question match. — , Jun 08 '17 at 14:24

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 08 '17 at 13:29

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You need to use the monospaced font like this:

label.font = UIFont.monospacedDigitSystemFont(ofSize: 17, weight: UIFontWeightRegular)

Obviously you can specify whatever font size and weight you want (or get them from the current font descriptor).

answered Jun 08 '17 at 13:29

Upholder Of Truth

score 0 · Answer 2 · 2017-06-08T13:50:03.590

You can set the attributedTitle property of a NSMenuItem and provide whatever custom alignment or formatting you want through an NSAttributedString

Good examples of how to do string alignment in an attributed string can be seen here:

Here is an answer that shows how to add tab stops to an attributed string:

You can even create an attributed string from RTF or HTML:

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