UIKit's [NSString sizeWithFont:constrainedToSize:] in AppKit

Question

Is there any equivalent method in AppKit (for Cocoa on Mac OS X) that does the same thing as UIKit\'s [NSString sizeWithFont:constrainedToSize:]?

If not

Answer 1

EDIT: You should be able to do things the normal way in Lion and later. The problems described below have been fixed.

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There is no way to accurately measure text among the current Mac OS X APIs.

There are several APIs that promise to work but don't. That's one of them; Core Text's function for this purpose is another. Some methods return results that are close but wrong; some return results that seem to mean nothing at all. I haven't filed any bugs on these yet, but when I do, I'll edit the Radar numbers into this answer. You should file a bug as well, and include your code in a small sample project.

[Apparently I have already filed the Core Text one: 8666756. It's closed as a duplicate of an unspecified other bug. For Cocoa, I filed 9022238 about the method Dave suggested, and will file two NSLayoutManager bugs tomorrow.]

This is the closest solution I've found.