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From: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: default font heigth under 2.0
Message-ID: <14694@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 27 Sep 90 19:19:29 GMT
References: <90270.154651GDAL3AI@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
Reply-To: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <90270.154651GDAL3AI@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be> GDAL3AI@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be writes:
>I'm looking for a way to find the heigth of the default system font
>under 2.0 . The problem I have is the following: I want to print a

	GfxBase->DefaultFont->tf_YSize
 
>BTW. I find the Width by using IntuiTextLength (or something like that,
>can't remember... is that right too ???)

IntuiTextlength() will give you the length, in pixels, of the
IntuiText's string.  With a non-proproportional font, this should be
the same as 

	strlen(MyIntuiText->IText) * MyIntuiText->ITextFont->tf_XSize

If you've got a proportional font, this is untrue.

>                                               I. Aerts

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