Get width of text printed using print

[codinghands]

Is there any way in advance to get the width of text to be printed using love.graphics.print before printing it? Or even after.

Cheers,

Paul

[veethree]

Yes. You can figure out the width of the font, Then multiply that by the length of the string. This works best if your font is monospaced

To get the length of a string you can use #.

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string = "whatever"
string_length = #string

If you're trying to center the text or something similar, Perhaps you could look into printf.

[szensk]

font:getWidth usage:

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local font = love.graphics.getFont()
local width =font:getWidth("Foobar and some other words too") --gets the width of the argument in pixels for this font

[codinghands]

You guys. <3. :getWidth() will do very nicely.

Thanks!