String width

[Jerry Daniels]

Thx, Geoff.

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[mailto:use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Geoff Canyon
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 1:01 PM
To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
Subject: Re: String width


At 10:53 AM -0600 12/5/01, Jerry Daniels wrote:
>Does anyone know how to determine the width of a string (given it's 
>font, style and size) within an executable that is running on either a 
>Windows, Linux or Mac?
>
>I know there were plenty of XFCNs on the Mac to do this, but is there 
>anything on the Windows or Linux for this?

As is so often the case with Revolution, no external is required -- the
functionality is already there. Check out the formattedWidth function.

I love saying "It's built-in" :-)

regards,

Geoff

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