How to get width of text, including metrics?

jansindl3r · 16 Sept 2019, 10:53

Hi, I need to get width of text, including its metrics. When I use this underneath method, it gets width of text, but without metrics. Please, how can I get the full width, please? I need it to animate the text below to move exactly one width of letter.

font_name = 'monaco'
string = 'HHHH'
font_size = 300
fontSize(font_size)
font(font_name)

path = BezierPath()
path.text(string, (0, 0), fontSize=font_size, font=font_name)
left, bottom, right, top = path.bounds()

stroke(0)
strokeWidth(0.1)
for i in range(100):
    for j in range(100):
        line((i * 10, 0), (i * 10, 700))
        
stroke(1, 0, 0)
strokeWidth(2)
line((left, 0), (left, 700))
line((right, 0), (right, 700))
stroke(None)

text_width = right - left
text_height = top - bottom

text(string, (text_width/4,0))
text(string, (0,300))

saveImage('bug.png')

gferreira · 16 Sept 2019, 12:28

hello @jansindl3r,

have a look at textWidth(txt), it returns the width & height of a text box.

good luck!

jansindl3r · 16 Sept 2019, 15:54

Hi @gferreira thanks a lot! Perfect..
Jan

jansindl3r · 16 Sept 2019, 15:59

@gferreira I also believe that you meant
textSize('string')