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nickjs
Getting data for text length
Jun 6th, 2007, 4:32am  
Hi,
Quick and simple question, one that's probably really easy, but I'm just getting used to Processing and programming in general, so I'm hoping someone can help me out.

I'm trying to build a simple program that will take a user's text input, render it as one continuos line, and then save that to a graphics file. As part of that, I'm wondering what the easiest way to get the length the text being rendered to the screen in pixels...if that made any sense. I'm not even sure if I'm going about this the right way at all, so any comments in general would be appreciated.

Thanks for your help Smiley
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JohnG
Re: Getting data for text length
Reply #1 - Jun 6th, 2007, 9:07am  
Processing has a nice built-in function to do exactly what you want:
http://processing.org/reference/textWidth_.html
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