>The LEN() command will tell you how many characters there are, but I don't think that will help too much unless you're using truetype fonts - where all the characters take up the same abount of space.
TrueType(tm) fonts do not necessarily take up the same amount of space! They use a common method of encoding the font so that it's easily sized and adapted to a wide range of graphic devices through a common interface.
The choice here is between
monospaced and
proportional fonts. With monospaced fonts, each character occupies the same amount of horitzontal and vertical space; proportional fonts adjust their width according to the character definition.
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>>I seem to be having a problem calculating the length of a text string. I tried the txtwidth() function and and fontmetric() function as shown in the txtwidth() help examle and I am getting nowhere. All I want to do is find the lenght of a string so I can auto size the box or command button it appears in.
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>>As usual, many thanks to all who help.
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>>John J. Henn.
