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Tk_TextWidth

Tk_MeasureChars(3)           Tk Library Procedures          Tk_MeasureChars(3)



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NAME
       Tk_MeasureChars,  Tk_TextWidth,  Tk_DrawChars, Tk_UnderlineChars - rou-
       tines to measure and display simple single-line strings.

SYNOPSIS
       #include <tk.h>

       int
       Tk_MeasureChars(tkfont, string, numBytes, maxPixels, flags, lengthPtr)

       int
       Tk_TextWidth(tkfont, string, numBytes)

       void
       Tk_DrawChars(display, drawable, gc, tkfont, string, numBytes, x, y)

       void
       Tk_UnderlineChars(display, drawable, gc, tkfont, string, x, y, firstByte, lastByte)


ARGUMENTS
       Tk_Font      tkfont      (in)      Token for font in which text  is  to
                                          be  drawn  or  measured.   Must have
                                          been returned by a previous call  to
                                          Tk_GetFont.

       const char   *string     (in)      Text  to  be  measured or displayed.
                                          Need not be  null  terminated.   Any
                                          non-printing  meta-characters in the
                                          string (such as tabs, newlines,  and
                                          other  control  characters)  will be
                                          measured or displayed in a platform-
                                          dependent manner.                    |

       int          num-                                                       |
       Bytes    (in)                                           |               |
                                          The maximum number of bytes to  con- |
                                          sider   when  measuring  or  drawing |
                                          string.  Must  be  greater  than  or |
                                          equal to 0.

       int          maxPixels   (in)      If  maxPixels  is >= 0, it specifies
                                          the longest permissible line  length
                                          in  pixels.   Characters from string
                                          are processed only until  this  many
                                          pixels  have  been covered.  If max-
                                          Pixels is < 0, then the line  length
                                          is  unbounded and the flags argument
                                          is ignored.

       int          flags       (in)      Various flag  bits  OR-ed  together:
                                          TK_PARTIAL_OK  means include a char-
                                          acter as long as any part of it fits
                                          in  the  length  given by maxPixels;
                                          otherwise, a character must fit com-
                                          pletely     to     be    considered.
                                          TK_WHOLE_WORDS means stop on a  word
                                          boundary,     if    possible.     If
                                          TK_AT_LEAST_ONE  is  set,  it  means
                                          return  at  least one character even
                                          if no characters could  fit  in  the
                                          length   given   by  maxPixels.   If
                                          TK_AT_LEAST_ONE    is    set     and
                                          TK_WHOLE_WORDS is also set, it means
                                          that if not even one  word  fits  on
                                          the  line, return the first few let-
                                          ters of the word that  did  fit;  if
                                          not even one letter of the word fit,
                                          then the first letter will still  be
                                          returned.

       int          *lengthPtr  (out)     Filled  with  the  number  of pixels
                                          occupied by the number of characters
                                          returned  as  the  result of Tk_Mea-
                                          sureChars.

       Display      *display    (in)      Display on which to draw.

       Drawable     drawable    (in)      Window or pixmap in which to draw.

       GC           gc          (in)      Graphics context for drawing charac-
                                          ters.   The  font selected into this
                                          GC must be the same as the tkfont.

       int          x, y        (in)      Coordinates at which  to  place  the
                                          left  edge of the baseline when dis-
                                          playing string.                      |

       int          first-                                                     |
       Byte   (in)                                           |                 |
                                          The  index  of the first byte of the |
                                          first character to underline in  the |
                                          string.   Underlining  begins at the |
                                          left edge of this character.         |

       int          last-                                                      |
       Byte    (in)                                           |                |
                                          The  index  of the first byte of the |
                                          last  character  up  to  which   the |
                                          underline  will be drawn.  The char- |
                                          acter specified by lastByte will not |
                                          itself be underlined.
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DESCRIPTION
       These  routines  are  for  measuring and displaying simple single-font,
       single-line, strings.  To measure and display single-font,  multi-line,
       justified  text,  refer  to the documentation for Tk_ComputeTextLayout.
       There is no programming interface in  the  core  of  Tk  that  supports
       multi-font, multi-line text; support for that behavior must be built on
       top of simpler layers.  Note that the  interfaces  described  here  are |
       byte-oriented  not  character-oriented, so index values coming from Tcl |
       scripts need to be converted to byte offsets using  the  Tcl_UtfAtIndex |
       and related routines.

       A  glyph  is the displayable picture of a letter, number, or some other
       symbol.  Not all character codes in a given font have a glyph.  Charac-
       ters  such  as tabs, newlines/returns, and control characters that have
       no glyph are measured and displayed by these procedures in a  platform-
       dependent  manner;  under  X, they are replaced with backslashed escape
       sequences, while under Windows and Macintosh hollow or solid boxes  may
       be  substituted.   Refer  to the documentation for Tk_ComputeTextLayout
       for a programming  interface  that  supports  the  platform-independent
       expansion  of  tab  characters  into  columns and newlines/returns into
       multi-line text.

       Tk_MeasureChars is used both to compute the length of  a  given  string
       and  to compute how many characters from a string fit in a given amount
       of space.  The return value is the number of bytes from string that fit
       in the space specified by maxPixels subject to the conditions described
       by flags.  If all characters fit, the return value  will  be  numBytes.
       *lengthPtr is filled with the computed width, in pixels, of the portion
       of the string that was measured.  For example, if the return  value  is
       5, then *lengthPtr is filled with the distance between the left edge of
       string[0] and the right edge of string[4].

       Tk_TextWidth is a wrapper function that provides a simpler interface to
       the  Tk_MeasureChars  function.   The return value is how much space in
       pixels the given string needs.

       Tk_DrawChars draws the string at the given location in the given  draw-
       able.

       Tk_UnderlineChars underlines the given range of characters in the given
       string.  It doesn't draw the characters (which are assumed to have been
       displayed  previously  by  Tk_DrawChars);  it just draws the underline.
       This procedure is used to underline a few characters without having  to
       construct an underlined font.  To produce natively underlined text, the
       appropriate underlined font should be constructed and used.


KEYWORDS
       font



Tk                                    8.1                   Tk_MeasureChars(3)