Comments on: TextFormat.getTextExtent() is All Right in My Book

by: David Stiller

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:43:39 +0000

Rothrock,

Haha, thanks for the tip!

by: Rothrock

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 23:36:01 +0000

I’ve always been a big fan of getTextExtent() as was quite alarmed when it was “depreciated.”

But recently, I’ve found it to be unreliable. I’m using an embedded font, but it makes a difference if the font is active/available on the host computer or not. For example, the word “QUACKING” is reported as being 76 pixels wide if the font is available, but 62 if it isn’t.

In both cases the embedded font renders properly. And I measured the dimensions with photoshop and they are both the correct 76 pixels wide.

I’m reporting this to Adobe, but David “Seething Cauldron” Stiller’s blog was one of the top google hits as I was trying to do more research!

by: Paul Cripps

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:20:03 +0000

Macromedia!! Nice… great functionality, hopefully it will stay in the future too.

by: Davel_x

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:36:07 +0000

I thought it would be quite ‘ugly’ to test if a text fits in an area by adding small parts of the text.
It will be using this tip soon, thank you !!

by: David Stiller

Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:43:00 +0000

According to the docs, TextFormat.getTextExtent() returns “An object with the properties width, height, ascent, descent, textFieldHeight, textFieldWidth.” It’s pretty informative!

by: Davel_x

Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:14:27 +0000

Does it also work for the height of a textField ? This would be very useful