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Dacite
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STRINGWIDTH?
« Thread started on: Apr 13th, 2015, 11:38pm » |
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Oops - My bad... Works great!
Stringwidth? sounded like the neatest thing since the Large Hadron Collider, but I get X = 0 when I use it.
Code:GRAPHICBOX #g.gb 5, 5, 100, 100
TEXTEDITOR #g.te 115, 5, 100, 200
open "Init" for Window as #g
#g.gb "trapclose [Done]"
#g.gb "font lucida_console 12"
#g.gb "backcolor green"
#g.gb "color yellow"
#g.gb "place 0 0"
#g.gb "\" ''' Write a line feed
#g.gb "posxy X Y" ''' Get graphics cursor position (font height)
Char$ = "X"
#g.te "!STRINGWIDTH? ";Char$;" "; X
print X, Y '* Prints 0 20 *
#g.te "!STRINGWIDTH? Char$ X"
print X, Y '* Prints 0 20 *
#g.gb "\"; Char$ '* Write a char *
wait
[Done]
CLOSE #g
END
Is the code I'm using. I also tried a literal "X", all variables inside the quotes, forum search for STRINGWIDTH?, restarting LBB... Without specifying the texteditor all I got was the "Mistake" box. Without the ! it prints STRINGWIDTH?.
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RobM
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Re: STRINGWIDTH? not working
« Reply #1 on: Apr 14th, 2015, 02:59am » |
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STRINGWIDTH is a graphics command. It isn't intended to work with texteditors.
Code:GRAPHICBOX #g.gb 5, 5, 100, 100
TEXTEDITOR #g.te 115, 5, 100, 200
open "Init" for Window as #g
#g.gb "trapclose [Done]"
#g.gb "font lucida_console 12"
#g.gb "backcolor green"
#g.gb "color yellow"
#g.gb "place 0 0"
#g.gb "\" ''' Write a line feed
#g.gb "posxy X Y" ''' Get graphics cursor position (font height)
Char$ = "X"
#g.gb "STRINGWIDTH? ";Char$;" X"
print X, Y '* Prints 0 20 *
#g.gb "STRINGWIDTH? Char$ X"
print X, Y '* Prints 0 20 *
#g.gb "\"; Char$ '* Write a char *
wait
[Done]
CLOSE #g
END
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Dacite
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Re: STRINGWIDTH? not working
« Reply #2 on: Apr 14th, 2015, 04:44am » |
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Thank you. For anyone else looking for a solution, here is the correct syntax:
Code:#g.gb "STRINGWIDTH? Char$ X"
I will have to test it, but I am assuming that the font width is the same in other display controls...
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