Re: [gtk-list] Quering text height in gdk

[robert havoc pennington <rhpennin midway uchicago edu>]

On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, David Abilleira Freijeiro wrote:
> 	I havenīt found any function in gdk to know the height of a text
> string. In the case of gdk_text_measure, it īs implementation get it
> (through XTextExtents) but only returns text width.
> 	Is there any way to obtain it without working with xlib?

If your string is in a GdkFont called 'font', then

gint height = font->ascent + font->descent;

At least, I think I remember that right.

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