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mikael YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 7	Text object Apr 15th, 2007, 1:46pm   Hello list, How do you locate the x and y coordinates of the individual letters in a string that is displayed by use of the Text object. E.g.: String s = "This is a test"; text(s, 10, 20); I know that there is textWidth() but it does not account for spacing between letters. Thanks.

JohnG Ex Member	Re: Text object Reply #1 - Apr 15th, 2007, 1:57pm   If you want to know where the second s in "This is a test" try x=10+textWidth("This i",10,20); //The 10+ is because of the 10 in the text() y=20;

mikael YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 7	Re: Text object Reply #2 - Apr 15th, 2007, 2:42pm   Thanks for the quick reply. I used following line of code in a for loop: char_loc += textWidth(s.charAt(i)); -Whith char_loc being a float variable. That seems to do the trick for now.