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Sun, 01 August 2004 17:41

andrew.cool
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Registered: July 2003

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ellips@yahoo.com (J.K.) wrote in message news:<90c173a.0407290707.65405a8@posting.google.com>...
> Is there any way to know the position of characters written to a
> device with xyouts? I'd like to do an xyouts but clear anything
> drawn underneath the text first with a polyfill.
>
> I can do it by trial and error but I could generalize it if I could
> translate characters to width and height in data or normal coordinates.
> I suppose this would change with !p.charsize/charsize/font selection.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> John K.

Hi John,

Try using a negative value with the CHARSIZE keyword, which will

1. Not write anyhting to the screen, and

2. Return in the Width keyword the width of the string in
normalised coordinates.

e.g. :-

string = 'This is a normal string'
XYOUTS, x, y, string, WIDTH=thisWidth, CHARSIZE=-1

Of course, Charsize = -2 gives you a string twice as wide.

See http://www.dfanning.com/tips/stringsize.html for more info.

Cheers,

Andrew Cool
DSTO, Adelaide, South Australia

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		Re: Translate characters/string size to data/normal coordinates? By: andrew.cool on Sun, 01 August 2004 17:41
		Re: Translate characters/string size to data/normal coordinates? By: R.Bauer on Sun, 01 August 2004 09:33
		Re: Translate characters/string size to data/normal coordinates? By: David Fanning on Thu, 29 July 2004 09:01

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