Text size in pixels ?

How can you determin the length and height of a text with or with out the use of Fonts?

What I want to do is outline a selected text with blitzes rect comand and at current Im just gestimating it size according to the type of Font used and the amount of caracters within the Text itself, but this dosnt hold true as for an Upper case (M) will take more space then an Lower case (i).

Any Ideas.

StringWidth() ?

and StringHeight() :P

StringHeight() has been replaced by FontHeight()

Wow
Didn't know about those commands ,Cool.

Thanks,

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stringheight/stringwidth and fontheight/fontwidth don't have the same usage as fontheight/fontwidth don't take care of the characters width used in the srting and just return the global character width/height used in the font.

i is narrower than W.

stringwidth return the exact lenght of the string writen