character spacing on a canvas

[cppdev]

I am writing text directly to a canvas.
I set the font (courier since it is fixed width by definition) and need to know how to find or calculate the space between the characters.

My goal is to calculate the location of each possible character on this canvas....i know how to find the character height and width and need to know how to find the spacing between characters.

Thanks in advance.

cppdev

 

[LastCyborg]

If you are using the font courier you can some of his features.
First, ever char of this font has the same size, I mean, the letter "i" has the same width for width and height than a letter "m".
So you can do some measures writting texts like
"a", check the width and then
write "am", check the width, substract 2 times the first and thats the width for the spacing betwen characters.





---LastCyborg---