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sd
Pixel length of a string
Mar 2nd, 2007, 5:37am  
Hi,
I'm using this function to display text on the screen.
text("ABCD",100,100);
I need to know how many pixels the "ABCD" letters would occupy on the screen (width-wise). The height it occupies would obviously be the font height, but what about the width?

I need this badly, coz I'm making a textfield class, and the characters I type in the textfield have to be shown only within the textfield, and should not overshoot the limits.

I've searched, but couldn't find any function which would give the number of pixels occupied by a text.

Please help... Smiley
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eskimoblood
Re: Pixel length of a string
Reply #1 - Mar 2nd, 2007, 9:27am  
You're looking for textWidth():

http://processing.org/reference/textWidth_.html
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Andreas Köberle {eskimoblood}
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sd
Re: Pixel length of a string
Reply #2 - Mar 2nd, 2007, 11:12am  
Thank you so much!! Smiley
I'm cursing myself for not finding that function earlier!!
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