How to calc text-lenghts of WebLabels with non-propertional fonts

Targets Web
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Hi Guys, maybe somebody could help me on this question: How to calc text lenghts of WebLabels with non-propertional fonts.

The Problem:

For my internal Issue- und Tracking System I am working on a JIRA-like WebControl for Displaying “IN REVIEW” Tags and Labels.
It basically works and looks like this:

But, my problem now is, that long tags like “this is a long labelname” do not scale proportional in their widths. Of course they can’t because I am using a non-proprotional font calculating the widths with fixed values. This is how I do this:

Is there any way or solution to calculate text width in WebLabels? Something like Graphics.StringWidth?

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Mmm there is a AutoSize feature request for Controls since 2008 (still from FoxBugz!)
(https://xojo.com/issue/2664)]https://xojo.com/issue/2664

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RubberViewsWE now offers precisely the function you need in version 1.15 :
getTextWidth I just added lets you get the width of a text from a label.

Just use the download instructions you got upon purchase to download the latest version from the site.

4

Hey this sounds good Michel!

Just tried to download from your server using http://match-software.com/cgi-bin/c/download.cgi
and my transaction/ email but recieving older version from July… I am misssing something?

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The file on the site is dated 2015/11/26. I just reuploaded to make sure.

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Ah thank you very much… I think it was my fault because I’ve had two Transaction ID… checking your Code right now! Thank you very much!