How can I get bounds of a text, provided string with attributes say, font size, font style, and font family in GTK+?
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How can I get bounds of a text, provided string with attributes say, font size, font style, and font family in GTK+?
For GTK+, you should probably look at Pango. I believe the required call is
pango_layout_line_get_pixel_extents(), although this will of course require you to parse whatever string it is you have with the specs, and set up the corresponding Pango object before getting the extents.