[Gambas-user] Paint.DrawRichText and Paint.RichText

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 19/12/2019 à 10:11, Rolf-Werner Eilert a écrit :
> 
> Hm, can't find it, neither where you said nor in the farm. But I do 
> remember it, I looked at it some years ago, and I guess there will be no 
> answer to my question.
> 
> What I miss is a property or a function that gives me the end 
> coordinates of the path when the text was finished. Using X and Y only 
> yields the start coordinates. DrawText or DrawRichText will paint the 
> text starting with X and Y, but afterwards the program has no control 
> about where the text in fact ends.
> 
> It could make life a lot easier to have these coordinates, because you 
> could then simply add the next paragraph or decide to start the next page.
> 
> If there is no way how to find out, I would have the do the job myself, 
> leaving DrawRichText aside. It would mean to build my own function.
> 
> Regards
> Rolf
> 

I'm aware of that problem, but AFAIK QT and GTK+ do not provide any way 
to get this very useful information!

You have to use the TextWidth() and TextHeight() method to get the size 
of a text before or after drawing it, which does the job almost twice.

If anyone has more information on this subject, he's welcome!

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini