Varkon MBS Programmers manual

textl - Function

Description

Returns the space in model units 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

  l:=textl(s);

  float  l;
  string s;

Principal parameters

s	- Any string.

Optional parameters

None.

Return value

A FLOAT value equal to the length of the text.

Comment

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

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