guiLabelGetTextExtent
Client-side
Server-side
Shared
This function returns the extent, or width, of the current text inside a GUI text label.
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- Method:gui-label:getTextExtent(...)
- Variable: .textExtent
Syntax
float|false guiLabelGetTextExtent ( gui-label theLabel )Required arguments
- theLabel: The text label to get the text extent from.
Returns
Returns the absolute width of the current text inside the text label if the function is successful, false otherwise.
- float|false: extent
Code Examples
client
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 labellocal 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 labelguiSetSize(myLabel, guiLabelGetTextExtent(myLabel), guiLabelGetFontHeight(myLabel), false)See Also
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