vb6 Get font width metrics

[JimHilton]

Hi, I thought this would be a piece of cake but its turning out to be quite the mystery.

I am writing a program that needs to know the font width of any character added to the text box.

I'm using the text onchange event.

I need the font width's width in points

I've tried the the picture box route, but am not comfortable with it and i need to evaluate 4 text boxes with different sized fonts.

Thanks!

Jim

 

[SkipVought]

Hi,

If you are coding in Vb6, then please post in forum222. This forum is forum707.

Skip,
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[strongm]

As Skip says, if this is a VB6 question it ought to be in forum222

If you repost there (and we can definitely help) perhaps you could expand a little on:

>am not comfortable with [the picture box route]

and let us know why you have an issue with that technique.