DeviceContext::GetTextExtent

GetTextExtent

1 Description
2 Syntax
3 Parameters
4 Return
5 Examples
6 Remark
7 See Also
8 header to Include

Description

Computes the width and height of a line of text on the attribute device context using the current font to determine the dimensions.

Syntax

SIZE GetTextExtent( const string & str )

Parameters

str: [input] A string object.

Return

The dimensions of the string (in logical units) in a SIZE structure.

Examples

EX1

void DeviceContext_GetTextExtent_ex2()
{
    WorksheetPage testWks = Project.WorksheetPages(0);
    Window wnd = testWks.GetWindow();
    DeviceContext dc = wnd.GetDC();
    SIZE sz[10];
    string strCheck = "ABC";
    sz[2] = dc.GetTextExtent(strCheck);
    out_int("x_width = ", sz[2].cx);
    out_int("y_width = ", sz[2].cy);
}