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dxGetTextWidth

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This function retrieves the theoretical width (in pixels) of a certain piece of text, if it were to be drawn using dxDrawText.

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

  • Method: font:getTextWidth(...)

Syntax

float dxGetTextWidth ( string text, [ float scale = 1, mixed font = "default", bool bColorCoded = false ] )
Required Arguments
  • text: A string representing the text for which you wish to retrieve with width for.
Optional Arguments

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

  • scale (default: 1): MISSING_PARAM_DESC
  • font (default: "default"): MISSING_PARAM_DESC
  • bColorCoded (default: false): MISSING_PARAM_DESC

Returns

  • float: value

Returns the float of the width of the text (in pixels).

Code Examples

shared

This will show you the width of a message in a normal chatbox sent by a player

function dxwidth(msg)
    chatbox = getChatboxLayout()
    local length = dxGetTextWidth(msg,chatbox["chat_scale"][1])
    outputChatBox(tostring(length))
end
addEventHandler("onClientChatMessage",root,dxwidth)

See Also

Drawing Functions
Drawing Elements
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