textWidth()

Purpose

Find the width in pixels of a string

Description

Receives a single string argument, returns the width (in pixels) of the given string

Syntax

result = textWidth( text )

Arguments

text text to find the size of

result width of the text at the current textSize

Example

message = "Hello World"
for size = 1 to 200 step 1 loop
    clear()
    textSize( size )
    tw = textWidth( message )
    drawText( ( gWidth() - tw ) / 2, ( gHeight() - size ) / 2, size, white, message )
    update()
repeat

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