Textfield with variable size http://www.allegro.cc/forums/view/617746 Allegro.cc Forum Thread matthew@allegro.cc (Matthew Leverton) Mon, 18 Feb 2019 23:16:52 +0000

I have a problem. I am designing my own menu classes and so on.
I have now a string in a textfield. And i want to draw this text in a filled rectangle. How do I get the size of the rectangle exactly around the text.
For example is the "M" bigger than the "I", so there isnt a perfect formula.
Is it possible to recognize colors in the display, to recognize the text, or maybe to display the text shaped to the height and width of the rectangle? Of course I would prefer the first method, because then I could use my own fontsize, like I want it.
Pleeease help me :((
Greetings from Germany

]]> no-reply@allegro.cc (nico_c++) Mon, 18 Feb 2019 15:31:55 +0000

Does al_get_text_width do what you want?

]]> no-reply@allegro.cc (Peter Hull) Mon, 18 Feb 2019 18:16:53 +0000

Try al_get_text_dimensions.

]]> no-reply@allegro.cc (Edgar Reynaldo) Mon, 18 Feb 2019 20:09:26 +0000

https://github.com/jmasterx/Agui/blob/master/src/Agui/Widgets/TextField/TextField.cpp#L783

https://github.com/jmasterx/Agui/blob/master/src/Agui/Backends/Allegro5/Allegro5Font.cpp#L127

]]> no-reply@allegro.cc (jmasterx) Mon, 18 Feb 2019 21:53:39 +0000

Yeaah thank you so much!!

]]> no-reply@allegro.cc (nico_c++) Mon, 18 Feb 2019 23:16:52 +0000