How to get string length in pixels?

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Need for some ui layout manipulations. Is this possible and how? Please help.
EDIT: If I know text size.

Posted 27-Dec-12 10:27am

halabella

Updated 27-Dec-12 23:49pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Dec-12 17:27pm

Wow!
—SA

TorstenH. 28-Dec-12 5:58am

WHY?
what are you trying to do? I expect you to be doing something wrong, so please share some more info about why you want to determine the length of a text.

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You are looking in wrong direction. By their nature, strings do not have lengths in in pixels or something like that. Strings are data structures totally abstracted from the way they are presented, such as fonts, colors, rendering styles, geometrical sizes, etc. Those are all some properties of some UI elements, whatever they are.

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Posted 27-Dec-12 11:27am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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kk_gp · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-28T00:14:00

Solution 2

string sta = "Hi This is Word";
Font arialBold = new Font("Garamond", 11.5F);
Size st1 = TextRenderer.MeasureText(sta, arialBold);
float pixcel = st1.Width;

Posted 28-Dec-12 0:14am

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[no name] 29-Dec-12 13:45pm

Excellent!