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Name

### textWidth()

Examples

    PFont font;
    font = loadFont("FFScala-32.vlw");
    textFont(font, 32);

    char c = 'T';
    float cw = textWidth(c);
    text(c, 0, 40);
    line(cw, 0, cw, 50);

    String s = "Tokyo";
    float sw = textWidth(s);
    text(s, 0, 85);
    line(sw, 50, sw, 100);

Description | Calculates and returns the width of any character or text string.

Syntax

    textWidth(data)

Parameters

data | char or String

Returns | Float
Usage | Web & Application
Related | loadFont() PFont text() textFont()

Updated on August 30, 2010 04:29:39pm EDT