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WereWolfBoy
WereWolfBoy

Reputation: 508

How do you calculate pixel size of string?

I have a string. I know the font family and the font size it is going to be displayed in. I need to know how many pixels the text will take up in the ui. So that I can determine whether to show another element. How would I do that?

I found a couple of things, but none of them were available in my Windows universal project. For example:

Edit:

This is not a web project.

I want to calculate the size it will take in the ui before it is in the ui.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2344

Answers (2)

Null Pointer
Null Pointer

Reputation: 9309

I think you need to create a textblock in code and assign the desired text to it. Then you can get the actual height and width from it. See the below code

         TextBlock txt=new TextBlock();
        //set additional properties of textblock here . Such as font size,font family, width etc.
        txt.Text = "your text here";
        var height = txt.ActualHeight;
        var width = txt.ActualWidth;

You can do further operations based on this height and width

I am not saying this is the optimized solution .But this will work for you

Upvotes: 4

godidier
godidier

Reputation: 1001

Try checking the values of the Width and Height properties of the control you use to display your text (eg. your TextBox), after setting your string as text/content, to decide whether to show another element.

Upvotes: 0

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