strwidth(3G)							  strwidth(3G)

NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     strwidth, lstrwidth - returns the width of	the specified text string

C SPECIFICATION    [Toc]    [Back]

     long strwidth(str)
     String str;

     long lstrwidth(type,str)
     long type;
     void *str;

PARAMETERS    [Toc]    [Back]

     type      expects the type	of this	string.	 See the man page for charstr
	       for a description of the	type argument.

     str       expects the pointer to the string to be measured.

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     strwidth and lstrwidth return the width of	a text string in pixels, using
     the character spacing parameters of the current raster font.  These
     functions are useful when doing a simple mapping from screen space	to
     world space.

     Undefined characters have zero width.

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

     charstr, deflfont,	defrasterfont, getlwidth, lcharstr, mapw, mapw2

NOTE    [Toc]    [Back]

     These routines are	available only in immediate mode.


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