VARKON Version 1.15 1997-10-24

textl - Function

The length of a text in millimeters


Description

Returns the space required to display a string with the text() procedure. The number of characters in the string and the current values of TSIZE and TWIDTH are used to compute the exact length in millimeters.

Syntax

textl(str)

STRING

str*132;

Principal parameters

str	- Any string

Optional parameters

None.

Return value

A FLOAT value equal to the length of the text.

Comments

textl() returns the length of a text. To retrive the height of a text use the function act_tsize().