Hi,

I tried to find out how to get the height or number of lines of a text (you can get the other thing with font.dy) in this thread:
http://www.opserver.de/ubb7/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=329125#Post329125

Apparently, there is no engine function which can do that. You can count the "\n"s in the string(s) of the text, but that doesn't work if the WWRAP flag is set.

So, could there please be an engine function like var txt_height(TEXT*) or something like text.lines?

yeah, that would be a cool feature!

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Any chance for that feature?

i think you can do this i did some long time ago.

for a workaround..
Depends on how accurate you need to be, but.

You count the lines by str_stri finding the number of /n sequence, and then, you use the plugin of joozey i think that counts the length of the text, and then you divide the length by the number of \n and also with the size_x of the text limit.( that defines the wwrap moment) :S

Not sure how accurate it is, but it worked okay for me, on that time.

ps: the height of the character is the font number i think no?

like arial 20 = 20px height? :s
but i can confirm that on photoshop arial 20 is totaly different from engine arial 20 dont know why
(and im counting with and wihout the smooth options of fonts in PS)

"Depends on how accurate you need to be, but."
It has to be absolutely accurate. It is supposed to be a GUI library, so the user should be able to use any text and it should recognize how many lines the text has. The only workaround so far would be setting the number of lines manually. But that wouldn't work if the text depends on user input.
The only way to find out the height on runtime I could imagine would currently be rendering the text onto a bitmap and examining that bitmap. That would be unnecessarily slow and would ignore empty lines at the end of the text.

"Not sure how accurate it is,..."
Not accurate enough to work for all possible texts.

"ps: the height of the character is the font number i think no?"
Yes, but this includes the space between lines.