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To follow up: I created some test code that uses this technique and compared it to the technique in Doug's paper. In every case I tested, the "Label" technique returned a value 2 higher than Doug's. With an empty string as the parameter Doug's method returned 0, the Label technique returns 2.

One thing I'm not sure of: Textboxes support a .FontCharSet property. That does not seem to be explicitly supported by TXTWIDTH() / FONTMETRIC(). I tried a few exotic tests but ones that were "legal" on my system still returned an offset of 2. Maybe users of non-Western character sets might see other differences.

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Have you considered using a Label instead, so you can take advantage of its .Autosize property?

If you have to use a Textbox, you might still be able to leverage a Label:

- Instanciate a label
- Make all of its .Font* properties the same as your Textbox
- Make its .AutoSize = .T.
- Make its .Value the same as your Textbox
- Read its current width
- Make your Textbox that same width (probably plus a few pixels, you'd need to experiment)

>Tore,
>
>Thanks. This is going t take a while!
>
>Yossi
>
>>This is actually harder to do, than you may immediately think. Check http://doughennig.com/papers/..%5CPub%5CGDIPlusX.pdf, search for "Measuring text".
>>
>>>Hi All:
>>>
>>>I have a class to which I pass a string to be a value for a text box in the class. I then want to adjust the width of the text box so that it is the width of the text string. How do I convert text string width to form control width?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Yossi