An exec. utility to get text width and height in pixels. PIC

[sunburnt]

### All credit for this utility goes to vovchik who posted the code and helped out at the BaCon forum.

This utility is a life saver for sizing text widgets and their containers and windows.

# With a BaCon label display it can rotate the text and display markup text.

# Very fancy indeed.!

Uses BaCon`s Hug for it`s label widget, so it may not want to work for non-Precise Puppies ( Slacko ).
If I can get more help with it, I`ll use all GTK imports and eliminate Hug. So then it may be more portable.

For help just type: text-size

The caret character "^" is the input separator ( delimiter ).

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Example: text-size ^Many here among us feel that life is but a joke.^Sans Bold 16^0^0

# Figured I ought to show a pic. of what can be done with it. Pretty impressive huh.?

The exec. only calculates the width x height. But additional dialogs can make use of it.

# I could make a text splash dialog like shown here if there`s interest.???

[musher0]

Hi, sunburnt.

Good show!

The graphic equivalent of

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wc -l some.txt

, I suppose?

BFN.

musher0

[sunburnt]

Hi musher; More or less, like:
W=`wc -c some.txt`
H=`wc -l some.txt`

Except in pixels Wide and High instead of Characters and Lines.
I use to use a mono-font and estimate the text length, it worked fairly well...
But now we can get the exact pixel measurements so you can use any font, style, and size.

GtkDialog and all other GUI kits I`ve seen measure in pixels ( screen measurements ).
Average button is 20 to 25 pixels high, so get the text`s Width and Height + 5 or 10 for padding.

Now I`ve made a menu that allows each button to have an individual font, style, and size.
The same could be done in GtkDialog or most other GUI tool kits.
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