Determines the width of a string using the current font of the specified print job.
PrintWidth ( printjobnumber, string )
Argument |
Description |
|---|---|
printjobnumber |
The number the PrintOpen function assigned to the print job |
string |
A string whose value is the text for which you want to determine the width |
Integer. Returns the width of string in thousandths of an inch using the current font of printjobnumber if it succeeds and -1 if an error occurs. If any argument’s value is null, PrintWidth returns null. If the returned width exceeds the maximum integer limit (+32767), PrintWidth returns -1.
These statements define a new blank page and then
set W to the length of the string PowerBuilder in
the current font and then use the length to position the next text
line:
long Job
int W
// Start a new print job.
Job = PrintOpen()
// Determine the width of the text.
W = PrintWidth(Job,"PowerBuilder")
// Use the width to get the next print position.
Print(Job, W - 500, "Features List")
