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$width returns the width of text in pixel in the specified font.

Synopsis

$width(text,font,size,bNiNpNtN)

Parameters

• text - The text you want the width of
• font - The name of the font
• size - The size of the font, you can specify a negative value to match the size of fonts in the font dialog

Before, there was a 4th 5th and even a 6th true/false parameters (bold, italic, and control code processing), to set some custom handling or display, it was changed to a single 4th parameter when tab processing were added:

• bNiNpNtN - Optional, defines some options for the measurement, N can be 1 or 0 to enable or disable the option:
  • bN enables/disables bold
  • iN enables/disables italic
  • pN enables/disables control code (-bi not needed there)
  • tN enables/disables tab character

Properties

None

Example

//echo -a $width(test,verdana,15)

Compatibility

Added: mIRC v5.31
Added on: 04 Jan 1998
Note: Unless otherwise stated, this was the date of original functionality.
Further enhancements may have been made in later versions.

See Also

$height