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Date: 3 Nov 1999 13:20:01 -0000
From: Vidar Hokstad <vidarh@screenmedia.no>
To: joker@crusaders.no
Cc: greg@censoft.com, nanoguil@linuxhacker.org
Subject: Re: GrArea and colours

On Wed, 03 Nov 1999 14:11:41 +0100 you wrote:

>**text-size - for positions. 
>  all text that is outputted is outputted in small chunks - 3 or 4 words 
>at a time. I have no idea how to  
>  calculate the width of a outputted line, and that causes large 
>spacings here and there since I assume  
>  a fixed length on all characters and i's are by far thinner than a M. 
>  Is there a quick way to calculate the pixel-width of a word ? 

There's two ways to do this:

GrGetFontInfo()     - This fills in a structure that includes the width of
every character.
GrGCTextSize()     - This calculates the width of a given string.

I suggest  using GrGetFontInfo(), since that can be done once for each font
used, and
then calculate the length "locally". It doesn't matter much when the app is
linked with  
Nano-X directly, but it is a LOT faster when using the network code.

Vidar.

[Cc:'d my answer to the mailing list since it doesn't contain any private
info...:) ]