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Get width and font of a character ?

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    Hi All, I wanna get the width and height of a character with font "Arial" or any fonts, do you have any solution for this case ? Thanks

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      Hi All, I wanna get the width and height of a character with font "Arial" or any fonts, do you have any solution for this case ? Thanks

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      Try GetTextExtent - this will give you the width/height of a string (make sure the corrent font is selected into the DC). There is more than one way to do this - maybe others will respond...


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        Hi All, I wanna get the width and height of a character with font "Arial" or any fonts, do you have any solution for this case ? Thanks

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        kendao wrote:

        I wanna get the width and height of a character with font "Arial" or any fonts, do you have any solution for this case ?

        Is GetCharWidth() api of any help

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