Swift - Drawing text with drawInRect:withAttributes:

Question

I have strange problem with Xcode 6.1 GM.

let text: NSString = \"A\"
let font = NSFont(name: \"Helvetica Bold\", size: 14.0)

let textRect: NSRect = NSMakeRe         


        

Answer 1

The problem is that font is optional because the convenience contructors now return optional values, so font needs to be unwrapped to be a value in your dictionary:

if let actualFont = font {
    let textFontAttributes = [
        NSFontAttributeName: actualFont,
        NSForegroundColorAttributeName: textColor,
        NSParagraphStyleAttributeName: textStyle
    ]

    text.drawInRect(NSOffsetRect(textRect, 0, 1), withAttributes: textFontAttributes)
}