length of text in textbox for any font

[dadames]

Hi All,

Using VB 6 I want to find out the length of text (in twips?) in a textbox regardless of which font is being used (not a count of characters).

I've tried both

GetTabbedTextExtent()

and

GetTextExtentPoint32()

but they both return 0 even though I can see that there are characters in the textbox.

Thank you.

[Stef]

Try:

TxtWidth = TextWidth(Text1.Text)

You might need to set the form's font property to match your textbox's font, and its scalemode to the scale you want (twips/pixels/???)

[dadames]

That seems to do it. I did set the form's properties as you suggested. I tried setting the text box width based on the TextWidth of it's content and I had to add to add another 100 twips for all the text to display. For option button captions I had to add another 295.

This is interesting and thank you for pointing me in this direction.