PRINTWIDTH

The _PRINTWIDTH function returns the width in pixels of the text string specified.

Syntax

pixelWidth% = _PRINTWIDTH(textToPrint$[, destinationHandle&])

Description

• textToPrint$ is any literal or variable STRING value.
• If the destinationHandle& is omitted, the current destination image or screen page is used.
• Useful to find the width of the font print string before actually printing it.
• Can be used with variable-width fonts or built-in fonts, unlike _FONTWIDTH which requires a MONOSPACE font handle.
• In SCREEN 0, _PRINTWIDTH returns the character length of a text string, exactly as LEN(textToPrint$) (version 1.000 and up).

Examples

Example: SUB returns font or screen mode's text block size using _PRINTWIDTH and _FONTHEIGHT without a handle parameter.

DO INPUT "Enter Screen mode 1, 2 or 7 to 13: ", scr$ mode% = VAL(scr$) LOOP UNTIL mode% > 0 SCREEN mode% INPUT "Enter first name of TTF font to use or hit enter for text size: ", TTFont$ IF LEN(TTFont$) THEN INPUT "Enter font height: ", hi$ height& = VAL(hi$) IF height& > 0 THEN _FONT _LOADFONT("C:\Windows\Fonts\" + TTFont$ + ".ttf", height&, style$) TextSize wide&, high& 'get the font or current screen mode's text block pixel size _PRINTSTRING (20, 100), CHR$(1) + STR$(wide&) + " X" + STR$(high&) + " " + CHR$(2) END SUB TextSize (TextWidth&, TextHeight&) TextWidth& = _PRINTWIDTH("W") 'measure width of one font or text character TextHeight& = _FONTHEIGHT 'can measure normal text block heights also END SUB

Code by Ted Weissgerber Note: The SUB procedure does not need the font handle for font sizes after _FONT enables one.

See also

• _FONTWIDTH, _FONTHEIGHT
• _NEWIMAGE, _LOADFONT
• _PRINTSTRING, _FONT
• Text Using Graphics

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