> You might head off to the MSDN Library and look up the GetTextMetrics
> function and TEXTMETRIC structure.
>
> There were a bunch of other interesting sounding functions:
> CreateFontIndirect, GetTextFace, GetTextAlign, GetTextExtentPoint32,
> SetTextJustification, [...].
I recently purchased a book called "Windows NT Win32 API Superbible" which
covers these functions and others. This helped quite a bit.
> I'd be glad to help you make a GetTextMetrics function via Win32::API
> and Win32API::Const to access that information... if you think it'd
> help.
Thanks. Maybe I could describe what I really need.
I've been working on the next version of my Win32::GUI Builder. I have
a BIG todo and fixit list, but the most important item is:
Getting the exact length of a text string (variable length font).
I'm using GetTextExtentPoint32 (which is part of Win32::GUI) but it
returns a width (in pixels) that is longer than the actual text. Don't
know how to get around this.
-david hiltz
