Re: character width

["Maximo Pech" <makz linuxmail org>]

that's just what i need but, how do i create a pango_rectangle? i cannot find a function to do that in the 
pango documentation.

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Necas (Yeti)" <yeti physics muni cz>
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 22:43:10 +0200
To: Maximo Pech <makz linuxmail org>
Subject: Re: character width

> On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 02:23:24PM -0600, Maximo Pech wrote:
> > how can i get the width of a char in pixels? this is depending on the font i'm using of course.
>
> With
>
> pango_layout_get_pixels_extents(layout,
>                                 &physical_rectangle,
>                                 &logical_rectangle);
>
> on a Pango layout containing the character in question and
> then
>
> physical_rectangle.width
> logical_rectangle.width
>
> depending on whether you are interested in logical character
> boundary or boundary of area contatining the glyph (ink
> boundary).
>
> Well, I assume you use Pango to render text; if you don't
> you'd better give more information if you want a reasonable
> answer.
>
> Yeti
>
>
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