# API Notes: CoreText framework

The full API is described in Apple’s documentation, both the C and Objective-C APIs are available (but see the API Notes below).

These bindings are accessed through the `CoreText` package (that is, `import CoreText`).

## API Notes

- `CTFontCreateWithQuickdrawInstance`

  This function is not supported by PyObjC.

- `CTFrameGetLineOrigins`

  The `length` of the `range` argument must not be `0`.

- `CTParagraphStyleSetting`

  This structure is not yet supported.

- `CTFontGetPlatformFont`

  This function is not supported, because the ATS framework does not have wrappers.

- `CTFontCopyAvailableTables`

  This function returns a python tuple, not a `CFArrayRef`. That’s because the C version returns a CFArray that doesn’t contain objects.

- `CTParagraphStyleGetValueForSpecifier`

  This returns a python string containing the actual value, you’ll have to decode this using the `struct` module to get at the real value.

- `CTParagraphStyleCreate` and `CTParagraphStyleGetValueForSpecifier`

  Both API’s have a rather low-level interface in Python: you’ll have to encode the value to a python buffer (string), or decode it from such a buffer yourself using the `struct` module.

  As a convenience the sizes of value types are defined as `sizeof_TYPE`, for example `sizeof_CGFloat`.

  A special case is `kCTParagraphStyleSpecifierTabStops`, it’s value should be an instance of `NSArray` when using with `CTParagraphStyleCreate`. Note that arbitrary Python sequences won’t work here.

  Use `CTParagraphStyleGetTabStops` to fetch the tabstops from a style object, using `CTParagraphStyleGetValueSpecifieker` is not supported with key `kCTParagraphStyleSpecifierTabStops`.

- All types and constants defined in “SFNTLayoutTypes.h” and “SFNTTypes.h” are not yet supported

- `CTRunDelegateGetRefCon`

  This function is only supported when the runDelegate argument was created in Python.

- `CTRunDelegateCreate`

  The first argument is a tuple with the `getAscent`, `getDescent` and `getWidth` functions, the second argument is an arbitrary python object.