Determine The Length Of A String In Pixels?
Jun 29, 2010
I am trying to determine the length of a string in pixels.
I created a little test program for myself and placed three labels on it, each with the same font in a different size. I set the width of the label to 1024, the screenwidth. I used the same test text for each label, cutting it off at the last character that shows, so there is not hidden text running off the label to be included in the string width count.
What I have found is that the width of the string is being reported as wider than the label, even though, as I just mentioned, there are no characters running off the edge of the label. So, something's awry. Does anyone know how to get an accurate width?
Here follows the whole test code. You can drop three labels on a form and run it to see what I mean.
Code:
Option Explicit On
Option Strict On
Public Class frmMain
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this is the line that prints the text:
vb.net
e.Graphics.DrawString(strText, New Font("Arial", 12), Brushes.Black, 10,10)
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Dim cursorpos As Point = Cursor.Position()
Dim hWnd As IntPtr = GetDesktopWindow()
Dim hDC As IntPtr = GetWindowDC(hWnd)
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ReleaseDC(hWnd, hDC)
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Label8.ForeColor = c
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[CODE]...
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My Code
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Try
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Attributes
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