NSAttributedString size() method returns incorrect width

Question

I created a custom NSButtonCell subclass which allows customizing padding between a button's contents. In my implementation (the full source code can be found on GitHub ) I override titleRect(forBounds:) to position the button title:

var titleSize: NSSize {
    return NSSize(width: ceil(attributedTitle.size().width),
                  height: ceil(attributedTitle.size().height))
}

override func titleRect(forBounds rect: NSRect) -> NSRect {
    return CGRect(x: paddingLeft,
                  y: rect.height / 2 - titleSize.height / 2,
                  width: titleSize.width,
                  height: titleSize.height)
}

The result doesn't look good:

To get the desired outcome I have to add an extra padding to the width:

I also tried using boundingRect(with:options:context:) to get the size, but I got the same results.

Answer 1

For future reference: I figured out the issue. When using attributedTitle , it's important to specify the font of the button, so that attributedString.size() can calculate the necessary width correctly. I assumed that by default, calculations are based on the default font for NSButton but apparently that was incorrect. See my commit for more details.