The manual states:

Quote:

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text.char_x
text.char_y
Size of a single character of the FONT in pixels. These values can't be changed, but may be used in functions to determine the bounds of the text display.

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At first I was wondering how the width of truetype fonts can be retrieved, but when I tried using char_x and _y in a textobject, it appeared that both properties were not even member of a TEXT object.

This is my code:
Code:

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FONT* standard_font = "Arial#18i"; 
TEXT* interfacetext = {
	font = standard_font;
	strings = 1;
	layer=55;
}

...

	if (interfacetext.char_y > 50) {
		str_cat(typemachine_str, "\n");
	}

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Did I do something wrong or is this function not supported anymore with Lite-C? Couldn't find any info about it anywhere.
And what about truetype fonts with .char_y? Is there anyway at all to see how big the 'textbox' is?

Thanx in advance

I found out that the font object has the properties dx/dy to see the width and height of a font (thanx to the lovely search button which I forgot).
I outputted the dx value of a truetype font, and each character of such a font appears to be '2'.

Whatever unity '2' may have (if it were pixels, then my font would be very very small I guess), how can a font with various character width have a constant of '2'?

I need to know when a string goes out of my defined boundaries, and place it on the next line...
How can I solve this at all?

so did you solved this? because im on it .. and i need this too

Hi guys! First of to get the horizontal size:


And for the height of one line of the text it is the point-value of the truetype in pixel! For example "Arial#24bi" would be 24 pixels tall!

I hope that gets you further.

greetings
K-Duke

Yeah but im using line feeds, not direclty but using the wrap flags, how do i solve this?