speach bubbles - predict/calculate bounding box of text

ch3

Is there an easy way to draw a box behind text? ... or how would you find the exact size of the area a string will occupy, depending the size and font and taking in consideration the enter character ("\n" )?

thanks

GoToLoop

Have you tried text() w/ 5 parametrs?: text(str, x1, y1, x2, y2)
https://Processing.org/reference/text_.html

Chrisir

it's hard one...

look at https://www.processing.org/reference/textWidth_.html

when you use \n you could count the \n in the text and thus get the numbers of lines, the height (depending on https://www.processing.org/reference/textLeading_.html and https://www.processing.org/reference/textSize_.html)

ch3

Oh cool, both pointers are very useful. I hadn't noticed text() can take a extra parameters. thank you guys!