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Determing form size necessary to display arbitrary text
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30/10/2001 15:24:34
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Forms & Form designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00575284
Message ID:
00575295
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>Is there a way to determine the size of a form (window) necessary to display a text string using a specific font given a specific width for the form (window) and assuming that text wrapping is occurring? As an example, given a window 160 pixels in width, how many pixels high must this window be in order to display the string 'Blah blah blah ... blah' using an Arial 10 point font?
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>I understand that there are text metric functions that will tell me the pixel length of a string but my understanding is that these functions do not take into account word wrap, i.e. they only return length assuming a single, non-word wrapped line of text.
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>Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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>Thanks!

Malcolm,
Check out Message#455966 for a formula to calculate this. You can also check out the other options available with Fontmetric().

HTH.
Larry Miller
MCSD
LWMiller3@verizon.net

Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning. -- Mingjiao
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