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From: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: How find width of prop. Font character?
Message-ID: <15156@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 15 Oct 90 15:36:54 GMT
References: <34830@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <34830@cup.portal.com> Lee_Robert_Willis@cup.portal.com writes:
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>Does anyone know how to find the width of a single character within 
>a proportional font, without using 'TextLength()'?  (The font/character 
>pair may not be the current font of the RastPort.) 

Easy.  Create a spare RastPort, and establish its font to the one
you want to measure.  Something like:

	struct RastPort tempRP;

	InitRastPort( &tempRP );
	SetFont( &tempRP, myfont );
	len = TextLength( &tempRP, text, len );

>   (Lee_Robert_Willis@cup.portal.com)

     Peter
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