On 18 July 2008, Robert May wrote: > >2008/7/18 Roode, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On 17 July 2008, Sean Healy wrote: >>> ($x, $y) = $Label->GetTextExtentPoint32($string); >> >> Upon further experimentation, there is something not quite right with
>> that. The width it returns is too wide. There seems to be some sort >> of per-character skew -- short strings are very accurate; longer >> strings get progressively worse. > >The Win32::GUI GetTextExtentPoint32(...) implementation uses the >default system font sizing if you don't tell it what font to use. I >think this is not as expected (or intended). > >Try this instead as a work around: >my ($x, $y) = $Label->GetTextExtentPoint32( $string, $Label->GetFont() ); Thanks, Rob! That worked perfectly. At least in the fonts I tried. >It would be much appreciated if you could raise a bug report for >this, as if called as a method against a window without a font >specified then I think the implementation should use the window's >current font. Sure, I can do that. No prob. -- Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-GUI-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-GUI-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/perl-win32-gui-users http://perl-win32-gui.sourceforge.net/
