Thanks to both of you. I believe I have all the information I need.

Regards

Can

On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Robin Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Christopher Barker wrote:
> > Can Baran wrote:
> >> I would like to be able to use the GetFullExtent function of the wx.DC
> >> class for the text that I add on a floatcanvas with a given font. I want
> >> to write a function called def textExtent which returns the height and
> >> width in screen coordinates of a piece of text in the selected font
> >> place on a floatcanvas (for example via the AddText call). How can I do
> >> that?
> >
> > I'm a bit confused -- if you want the text extent in screen coords, then
> > you can just use the regular old DC.GetFullTextExtent method. You can
> > create a wx.ScreenDC to do this.
>
> Using a wx.ClientDC will probably be faster.  On OSX at least it has
> some optimizations in place if all you use it for is text measurement.
>
>
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