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guiLabelGetFontHeight

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This function returns the height of the font currently used in a GUI text label.

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  • Method: guilabel:getFontHeight(...)
  • Variable: .fontHeight

Syntax

float guiLabelGetFontHeight ( element theLabel )
Required Arguments
  • theLabel: The text label to get the font height from.

Returns

  • float: value

Returns the absolute height of the font currently used in the text label if the function is successful, false otherwise.

Code Examples

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This example creates a window, a text label, gets the text extent and font height, and sets the text label size according to these values.

-- create the window (the container for our label)
local myWindow = guiCreateWindow ( 0, 0, 0.5, 0.4, "Information", true )
-- create the label
local myLabel = guiCreateLabel ( 10, 10, 0, 0, "This is my text container", false, myWindow )
-- get the (absolute) text extent and font height, and use these to size the label
guiSetSize ( myLabel, guiLabelGetTextExtent ( myLabel ), guiLabelGetFontHeight ( myLabel ), false )

See Also

GUI Functions