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How to determine the length of a graphic string?

Asked 2011-06-03T20:43:46.627
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I'm creating a graphical timeline out of an excel document and I need to have small tags of the name of the event next to the marker for that event. Some of these are easy and are right justified but others are left justified and I need to figure out their width so that I can properly offset them.

window.drawString("7/4-Fourth of July",horizontalIndex-Offset,verticalIndex);

Currently I'm averaging the pixel width using an average of both font sizes 10 and 32, but this doesn't really cut it. Can someone help me get the exact offset?enter image description here

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TextLayout, shown here, is another alternative.

answered 2011-06-04T00:22:56.520

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