On Aug 21, 2006, at 4:11 PM, Phil M wrote:
On Aug 21, 2006, at 3:39 PM, Brian Heibert wrote:
I tried the previous solution that worked for PushButtons but now
I am using a custom button that looks better with Brushed Metal
windows
You can only guesstimate the size of the string (in pixels) with Len
(). Unless you use a monospaced font like Courier, different
characters take different amounts of space... a caption of 10 m's
"mmmmmmmmmm" is considerably longer (in pixels) than 10 dots/
periods "..........". The "m" character is usually the longest
character in the roman alphabet, and should be a good "worst-case"
size for estimations.
Or, do as had been suggested before and actually measure how many
pixels that text will take.
dim p as picture
p = new picture (1,1,32)
p.graphics.textfont = me.textfont
p.graphics.textsize = me.textsize
return p.graphics.stringWidth(me.caption)
the solution that worked for a push button should mostly still be on
the right track for this custom button
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