I have found a way of measuring text length, and I entered in the Qooxdoo
FAQ.
I use it successfully specially for measuring column widths.


Derrell.Lipman wrote:
> 
> Certainly.  The length of the cell data, however, can way exceed the
> available
> space on the screen, so resizing the column doesn't solve the problem.
> 
> I dealt with it by determining the longest string being placed in that
> column
> prior to each setData() call, and issuing a setColumnWidth(1, maxLen * 7).
> The 7 was determined empirically to be "a bit more than big enough".  I
> wonder
> if there's a function for getting the average width of a character in the
> font
> being used, or, better yet, a function to determine the rendered length of
> a
> string?
> 

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