Measuring Text 1

[SBendBuckeye]

Hello all,

How do you determine text width when using proportional fonts? We are using a 3rd party grid which will automatically wrap column headers if they contain embedded spaces (eg Multi Column Header) if the user resizes them. But if I do it in code, it will print it all on one line and thus too wide.

I can split the headers into an array but what method do I use to calculate the text width (eg iiiii is always narrower than

http://WWWW).

Thanks in advance for any ideas and/or suggestions!

Have a great day!

 

[CautionMP]

Try [tt]Gdi32.GetTextExtentPoint32()[/tt].
Here is the link to MSDN MSDN Home > MSDN Library > Win32 and COM Development > Graphics and Multimedia > GDI > Windows GDI > Fonts and Text > Font and Text Reference > Font and Text Functions > GetTextExtentPoint32

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[chrissie1]

easy

http://www.thescarms.com/dotnet/MeasureString.asp

Christiaan Baes
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[SBendBuckeye]

Thanks to both of you! CautionMP, I believe that link was in C++ so I have no way to translate it. Chrissie1, it works wonderfully after I added the following to create a Graphics object since the link used paint event args:

Dim e As System.Drawing.Graphics = Me.CreateGraphics()

Have a great day!