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[ALLY] Re: Determining Pixel size of font

From: johan:forsberg:6117:student:uu:se at: 16-Aug-2000 12:38

On 16-Aug-00, [rebol--techscribe--com] wrote:
> how do I determine how much space (horizontally) a string will take > up on the screen, given a specified font name and size? > I.e. if I have the string "0123456789" and I'm using font size 12 > and font name "courier", and I position the face that contains the > text at offset 0x0, how do I determine programmatically how large I > must make the face so that the complete string will be displayed? If > I then want to add some other element behind this string, how do I - > again programmatically - determine at which x offset I have to > position that next element?
You might use 'size-text on the appropriate face after you've added the text and then re-size it accordingly. It's behaving a bit strange for me sometimes, but I think it has to do with whether the text has word-wrap turned on. -- Johan Forsberg