[baran_khan]

Guys,

Here is another query, I am posting too many strange things today ..

well actually I am working on this custom button field with a small image on left side along with a string following it. What I am trying to do is to create a button with an image and user provided string.

Not the issue I am facing is that, here I have to use Graphics class FillRectangle method to create a rectangle that can accommodate both my image and the string provided. I am able to get the width of the image using getWidth method but for string I m not sure how to get the width in pixels as the String.length() method gives us the number of characters in the string.

I hope you understand the scenario, what I need is to have something that can give me the length of the string in pixels, so that I can draw that big rectangle to accommodate both my image and the string. Right now I am putting it hard coded but I want it to be custom enough to expand or shrink depending upon the given string.

Any idea how we can get that width in pixel for a string. I hope my English is able to make u understand the things.

[Ivanov]

use getFont().getAdvance(your_string_var) to find out the length of the string using the Font set for your field

[baran_khan]

Originally Posted by Ivanov

use getFont().getAdvance(your_string_var) to find out the length of the string using the Font set for your field

Hello Ivanov,

My good friend, good to see you back.

I can now post more queries...lol

it works wonder my friend.