How to get correct width of TT strings??

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From: John Baima
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 13:58

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The Windows function GetTextExtent does not return the correct length
of a display string when using TT fonts. It is often close, but not
always. Typically, the length returned by GetTextExtent is too small.
Is there any other way to really find out what the display width of a
string really is?? It's kind of nice to know once and awhile :-)

Thanks for any help.
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John Baima
Silver Mountain Software   1029 Tanglewood, Cedar Hill, TX 75104
john@ling.uta.edu          Voice/Fax (214) 293-2920

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