Re: Getting size of text

[Noah Levitt <nlevitt columbia edu>]

Perhaps pango_layout_get_extents?

Noah

On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 14:38:06 +0200, François-Xavier Coudert wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> After preparing a Pango layout for display and before displaying it
> actually, I use pango_layout_get_pixel_size (p_layout, &width, &height)
> to get its size.
> 
> But the size I get using this is the width of the texte and the height
> of the line, and not a real "bounding box" for my text. Since I use it
> to blank some areas of the display, I need a tight bouding box. How
> should I do?
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> François-Xavier
> 
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