Re: how to get text size ?

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.cairo
Organization Geek Central
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 9 Jul 2016 14:48:12 +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
wrote:

> But I'm still struggling w/ the exact meaning of y_bearing ...

There are 6 fields in a cairo_text_extents_t
<https://www.cairographics.org/manual/cairo-cairo-scaled-font-t.html#cairo-text-extents-t>:
the first 4 define the bounding box of the text, relative to the initial
drawing position. To construct the rectangle equivalent 
<https://www.cairographics.org/manual/cairo-cairo-t.html#cairo-rectangle-t>,
do it like this:

    cairo_text_extents_t text_extents;
    cairo_rectangle_t text_bounds;

    cairo_text_extents(ctx, "some text", &text_extents);
    text_bounds.x = text_extents.x_bearing;
    text_bounds.y = text_extents.y_bearing;
    text_bounds.width = text_extents.width;
    text_bounds.height = text_extents.height;

The other 2 text_extents fields (x_advance, y_advance) define the
offset from the initial drawing position to the final drawing position.
-- 
cairo mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.