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From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: width of font characters
Message-ID: <6438@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 89 17:20:40 GMT
References: <1569@wpi.wpi.edu>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <1569@wpi.wpi.edu> pawn@wpi.wpi.edu (Kevin Goroway) writes:
>Is there any way to get the actual width of a single character of a particular
>font given that the font is loaded correctly.

The TextLength() function can be used for this; its a bit easier
than going into the font data itself.

		andy
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