On Friday, July 18, 2003, at 10:27 PM, Howard Bornstein wrote:


 This is using my previous suggestion of comparing two letters
rather than the entire alphabet.

Howard thanks. Yes this method is fairly quick. Actually I was hoping for a ready-made system property like "the fixedWidthFontFamilies" or something ;-)


re: comparing I vs. Z or the whole alphabet. Picking two letters I would take I and M. I think M is supposed to be the widest letter in general, hence an "em-dash"... I could be wrong about that.

But my reason for using entire alphabet instead of I and Z is that I think it could be possible for some font to have an I and Z have a difference in width that is less than the resolution of "the formattedWidth". I can't visualize what the font would be, but it's certainly possible. That's why I would make it more reliable by comparing multiple letters. Thoughts?

The key to this speed, btw, is the lock screen command.

Yep I am doing that too.


Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
http://ARCplanning.com

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