RGtk2 (version 2.8.8)

cairoTextExtents: cairoTextExtents

Description

Gets the extents for a string of text. The extents describe a user-space rectangle that encloses the "inked" portion of the text, (as it would be drawn by cairoShowText). Additionally, the x_advance and y_advance values indicate the amount by which the current point would be advanced by cairoShowText.

Usage

cairoTextExtents(cr, utf8)

Arguments

cr

[Cairo] a Cairo

utf8

[char] a string of text, encoded in UTF-8

Value

• A list containing the following elements:
• extents
  [CairoTextExtents] a CairoTextExtents object into which the results will be stored

Details

Note that whitespace characters do not directly contribute to the size of the rectangle (extents.width and extents.height). They do contribute indirectly by changing the position of non-whitespace characters. In particular, trailing whitespace characters are likely to not affect the size of the rectangle, though they will affect the x_advance and y_advance values.