[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: FontMetrics missing some usefull functio

["Steve Northover" <steve_northover@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You could enter a bugzilla feature request for
FontMetric.getLargestCharWidth().
In the meantime, you can use GC.textExtent() to measure a character.  'W' is
ususally
the widest English character.

"Hans Deragon" <hans@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Greetings.
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>    I need to figure out how long my Text field should be to contain 10
characters.
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>    Using FontMetric.getAverageCharWidth() is not good enough.  I do not
want
> the average, I want the size of the largest (usually 'm').
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>    Is there some other way I can get the information I am looking for?  I
want
> to get the largest character width, and it would also be nice if I could
get
> the width of a particular character.
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>    FontMetric.getLargestCharWidth()
>    FontMetric.getCharWidth(char character)
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>    Maybe I should open a feature request for this.
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>
> Sincerely,
> Hans Deragon
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