String formatting in cocoa
- by lostInTransit
Hi
I am trying to send some text in an email from my cocoa app (by using Mail.app). Initially I tried using HTML to send properly formatted text. But the mailto: URL does not support html tags (even after setting headers)
So I decided to use formatted string (left-aligning of string) This is what I have in my mailto: link's body argument
NSMutableString *emailBody = [NSMutableString stringWithFormat:@"|%-35s", [@"Name" UTF8String]];
[emailBody appendFormat:@"|%-18s", [@"Number" UTF8String]];
[emailBody appendString:@"|Notes\n"];
[emailBody appendString:@"----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"];
for(int i = 0; i < [items count]; i++){
NSDictionary *props = [items objectAtIndex:i];
NSMutableString *emailData = [NSMutableString stringWithFormat:@"|%-35s", [[props valueForKey:@"name"] UTF8String]];
[emailData appendFormat:@"|$ %-16s", [[props valueForKey:@"number"] UTF8String]];
[emailData appendString:[props valueForKey:@"notes"]];
[emailBody appendString:@"\n"];
[emailBody appendString:emailData];
}
This does give me padded text but they all don't necessarily take up the same space (for instance if there is an O in the text, it takes up more space than others and ruins the formatting)
Is there another sure-shot way to format text using just NSString?
Thanks
