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alphachapmtl Full Member Offline Posts: 128 Canada	textWidth() , textSize() Apr 7th, 2008, 2:23am   textWidth() returns the width of a text string. Is there a function returning the height of a text string? textSize() sets the current font size, it doesn't return the value.

polymonkey Full Member Offline Posts: 137 Australia	Re: textWidth() , textSize() Reply #1 - Apr 7th, 2008, 2:54am   if you add textDescent() and textAscent() you get a pretty good result. But depending on the font it can be a couple of pixels out.
	MattD(polymonkey)

alphachapmtl Full Member Offline Posts: 128 Canada	Re: textWidth() , textSize() Reply #2 - Apr 7th, 2008, 3:20am   In the reference, they do say: "adding the textAscent() and textDescent() values give the total height of the line" which is surprising based on the reference definitions of textAscent() and textDescent().