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asiri YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 28	how to get the width of a text Mar 5th, 2010, 9:41pm   PFont font = loadFont("AmericanTypewriter-24.vlw"); textFont(font,45); text("hello", 0, 50); i want to get the width and height of this text so that i can make a mouse over event thanks.

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: how to get the width of a text Reply #1 - Mar 6th, 2010, 12:09am   textWidth() textAscent() textDescent() Reusing textWidth()'s example: Code: float y = 85; String s = "Tokyo"; float sw = textWidth(s); text(s, 0, y); float asc = textAscent(); float desc = textDescent(); line(0, y + desc, sw, y + desc); line(0, y - asc, sw, y - asc);

asiri YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 28

Re: how to get the width of a text Reply #2 - Mar 6th, 2010, 6:36am   in this example u hv given it doesnt consider the size and type of the font isnt it i want to get the width of the text with respect to the font and the size i have specified. i also found a old post by fry

asiri YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 28	Re: how to get the width of a text Reply #3 - Mar 6th, 2010, 7:19am   ignore my earlier post. thanks PhiLho that solved my problem

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: how to get the width of a text Reply #4 - Mar 6th, 2010, 9:27am   For the record (since you understood yourself), indeed my code was partial, you needed the code from the example, loading the font and using textFont() to set the text size. textXxxx() calls then refer to latest textFont() call.