last time.

Guess this is the last time i will bother asking this as I have wasted a days programming already! I think there is an incconsistency between StringWidth() and GadgetWidth() do they even take parameters in pixels?

I want to create a label:

txt$ = "123"
CreateLabel( txt$, 0,0, StringWidth(txt$), FontHeight(), hnd )

the label width does not match the width of the string, ie: StringWidth(txt$) returns 32, the label at 32 pixels wide is greater than required for a string of "123". I will be creating various labels of differing widths and need to centre them relative to a panel gadget so i really, really need to set the label dimensions to match that of the string.

How do you reckon that? In this code:

SetBuffer (DesktopBuffer())
win=CreateWindow("blah",0,0,300,300,0,33)
txt$ = "123" 
mylab=CreateLabel ( txt$, 0,0, StringWidth(txt$), FontHeight(), win ) 
DebugLog StringWidth(txt$)
DebugLog GadgetWidth (mylab)
Stop

StringWidth and GadgetWidth both return 24. Please explain the problem in greater detail.

Nigel - I understand your problem because I have it as well. :)

The issue is this: StringWidth doesn't return the width of an API type string, but the width of a string using the current canvas font.

You might try loading a the same Windows font to an invisible canvas and checking the width of that.

Hope this helps.

Yeah, I had the same problem. You must load a font to be able to use Stringwidth()

Hey thanks for that, looked under the appearance setings and found that Tahoma was the font and its size was 8, doesn't quite match but it is close and I am sure I can get it to work from here thanks again.

The problem is you don't know what your users have on their computer, so I guess you can call the API to find that out, at which point I stop caring much about how wide my gadgets are.