Merlin’s Delphi Forge

To determine the width of a string in pixels using the active font and output it’s best to use this method:

  (* sString - (string) Can be any string constant or variable.
  **
  ** For example:
  **   TCanvas.TextWidth('m3Rlin');
  **   TCanvas.TextWidth(Edit1.Text);
  **   TCanvas.TextWidth(OpenDialog1.FileName);
  *)
  TCanvas.TextWidth(sString);

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