How to adjust vertically single line string in NSTextField?

Question

I am using custom font for non-editable NSTextField, which I created in StoryBoard:

generalDisplay.font = NSFont(name: "DS-Digital Bold", size: 25.0)

Then I am adjusting frame height:

generalDisplay.frame.size.height = 28

The result is not centered vertically:

I've tried to turn off single line mode, but the result is even worse.

If I should subclass it, could you give me an example what methods I have to override?

Possible duplicate of [Vertically aligning text in an NSTextField using Swift](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34379353/vertically-aligning-text-in-an-nstextfield-using-swift) — Willeke, Sep 30 '18 at 16:19

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 30 '18 at 10:03

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You can subclass UITextField and override this method:

override func textRect(forBounds bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect { 
   return bounds.inset(by: UIEdgeInsets(top: 0, left: 5, bottom: 0, right: 10)) 
}

answered Sep 30 '18 at 10:03

Andrew21111

It is not for iOS, but `NSTextField`. – Pablo Sep 30 '18 at 10:06
You're right, I read Swift and textfield and completely misunderstood – Andrew21111 Sep 30 '18 at 11:08

James Woodrow · Answer 2 · 2018-09-30T10:22:03.387

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Looking at the Apple documentation for NSTextfield maybe you could initialize your NSTextField with a NSAttributedString to be able to change the baseline

NSTextfield(labelWithAttributedString: NSAttributedString)

edited Sep 30 '18 at 10:22

answered Sep 30 '18 at 10:07

James Woodrow

`Use of unresolved identifier 'NSBaselineOffsetAttributeName'`, `Value of type 'NSTextField' has no member 'defaultTextAttributes'` – Pablo Sep 30 '18 at 10:13
Just read your comment on the other answer thought this was for iOS swift and confused it with `UITextfield` but maybe this can help since it talks about baseline offsets here as well https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/TextUILayer/Tasks/SetTextAttributes.html – James Woodrow Sep 30 '18 at 10:16
After reading the documentation I updated my answer, maybe it would work, I don't really know the context to be able to narrow down the search myself but if it doesn't help hope someone else will have better knowledge of `NSTextfield` – James Woodrow Sep 30 '18 at 10:23
`let atrString = NSMutableAttributedString() atrString.append(NSAttributedString(string: display.data, attributes: [NSAttributedStringKey.baselineOffset:15.0])) generalDisplay.attributedStringValue = atrString` doesn't move offset inside text field... – Pablo Sep 30 '18 at 11:19
Setting field to single line mode moves to base offset. But I wonder if the offset can be calculated based on font size. – Pablo Sep 30 '18 at 11:36
You could probably subclass NSAttributedString so that it would recalculate the offset after setting the font or the font size – James Woodrow Sep 30 '18 at 17:24

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