Find the Length of a text string in units.

[Thawlro]

Is there a way to find the length of a Text string in untis not characters?. I am building a VBA program for AutoCAD.

 

[IFRs]

The length of an existing text string in the drawing, or the length of a new text string that you know the characters of?

 

[Thawlro]

Thanks for repling. It is the length of a text string The use will be putting in the drawing and it is unknown. Now having said that...I need to put have the text underlined. If I cannot get the length of he string, is there away to underline the text being entered. the code i am using is:

Set TextObj = ThisDrawing.ModelSpace.AddText(UCase(ViewText), PickPoint, TxtHeight)
TextObj.color = 50
TextObj.Alignment = acAlignmentBottomCenter
TextObj.TextAlignmentPoint = PickPoint

 

[borgunit]

The method GetBoundingBox should get you the height and width that about any AutoCAD object would occupy.



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[Thawlro]

Thank you...I will try that