FontOperationTextImageBounds

Type

operator

Summary

Measure text precisely when drawn with a font.

Syntax

the image bounds of text <mText> with <mFont>

Description

The exact bounds of the text, which will fully enclose each character.

note

This can be more time-consuming to compute than the layout bounds.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
mText		An expression which evaluates to a string.
mFont		An expression which evaluates to a font.

Examples

// Set up tFont as size 18 Arial
variable tFont as Font
put font "Arial" at size 18 into tFont

// Measure text with tFont
variable tBounds as Rectangle
put the image bounds of text "Sample text" with tFont into tBounds

Value

Name	Type	Description
return		The bounding box of mText when drawn at point 0,0 with font mFont. Returns the bounds as a rectangle.