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dxGetFontHeight

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This function retrieves the theoretical height of a certain piece of text, if it were to be drawn using dxDrawText.

Note

The returned height will be in logical units which are 1.75 times the actual pixel height.

OOP Syntax Help! I don't understand this!

  • Note: This syntax requires you to ignore the font argument above

  • Method: font:getHeight(...)

Syntax

int dxGetFontHeight ( [ float scale = 1, mixed font = "default" ] )
Optional Arguments

NOTE: When using optional arguments, you might need to supply all arguments before the one you wish to use.

  • scale (default: 1): The size of the text.
  • font (default: "default"): Either a custom DX font element or the name of a built-in dx font: "default": Tahoma "default-bold": Tahoma Bold "clear": Verdana "arial": Arial "sans": Microsoft Sans Serif "pricedown": Pricedown (GTA's theme text) "bankgothic": Bank Gothic Medium "diploma": Diploma Regular "beckett": Beckett Regular "unifont": Unifont

Returns

  • int: value

Returns an integer of the height of the text.

Code Examples

shared 
screenWidth, screenHeight = guiGetScreenSize() -- Get the screen resolution
scale = 2  -- The scale of both texts


-- We add an event handler to keep drawing the text
addEventHandler("onClientRender",root,function()


   -- Draw the first text 400 pixels from the top and left of the screen
   dxDrawText("Hello!", 400, 400, screenWidth,screenHeight,tocolor(255,255,255,255),scale,"pricedown")


   -- Draw the second text above the first one.
   -- The variable "offset" will return the height of the first text, so we can position the second text above the first one.
   -- If we changed the scale, the second text would still be above the first one, since we calculated the height of the font.
   offset = dxGetFontHeight(scale,"pricedown")
   dxDrawText("Hello!", 400, 400 - offset, screenWidth, screenHeight,tocolor(255,255,255,255),scale,"pricedown")
end)

See Also

Drawing Functions
Drawing Elements
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