Text width?

[danikaze]

Hello there!

I'm new in SFML (I come from allegro/gosu/others) and I wonder if there's any way to know the width of a text.

I noticed there isn't any method such as float Text::width() that returns the size in pixels of the Text string.

Why do I need this? Well, to draw my text into boxes (with lines limited by a certain number of pixels) and have a custom format system (to change style, color...) which will draw the text by parts.

So is there (or will be in the 2.0) any function to know that?

Thank you in advance!

[Lo-X]

Yes, if you look at the documentation you can see this :

FloatRect sf::Text::getGlobalBounds() const

http://www.sfml-dev.org/documentation/2.0/classsf_1_1Text.php#a95d732f58bd12bf7ec388b106f3729ba
http://www.sfml-dev.org/documentation/2.0/classsf_1_1Rect.php

[danikaze]

Oh thanks! I'm in the process of changing my library to SFML and it's just that question popped in my head!
Still have to get used to the library

Thanks again!