Height of a text

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bert
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Height of a text

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Hi all :) i look for a way to get the height of a multiline text. Is it possible with something like xxx:getWidth(). Anyone has an idea ? :)
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Xgoff
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Re: Height of a text

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bert wrote:Hi all :) i look for a way to get the height of a multiline text. Is it possible with something like xxx:getWidth(). Anyone has an idea ? :)
weird but i would guess

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your_font:getHeight() * select(2, your_font:getWrap("text you're printing", your_printf_width))
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Re: Height of a text

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I typically store mutliline text as a table with strings, one for each line. That makes it simpler, just

font:getHeight() * #texts
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