> Can I somehow determine the exact (shrunk-to-fit) bounding > box for a piece > of text in a given font (helvetica, arial, times new roman, > courier, etc.) > using a given font size?
Yes - see the unittests example in the test folder, in particular the "rendering text" tab. It shows the behaviour of fl_measure(...) and fl_text_extents(...) It sounds like what you want is fl_text_extents() here. SELEX Galileo Ltd Registered Office: Sigma House, Christopher Martin Road, Basildon, Essex SS14 3EL A company registered in England & Wales. Company no. 02426132 ******************************************************************** This email and any attachments are confidential to the intended recipient and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient please delete it from your system and notify the sender. You should not copy it or use it for any purpose nor disclose or distribute its contents to any other person. ******************************************************************** _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk

