call it a fake, but if you use a fixed-width font aka. monospaced font, then you can simply calculate the overall width:

number of characters * character width = overall width

roman

On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 16:04 +0100, brandt@subnet.at wrote:

Hi all

how is it possible to get the actual with of one character in pixes during the runtime.

any help appreciated

Thank you in advance markus

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