if have font name, font size of text==> text width and text height ???

[aazz]

hi everybody.
i using vc++6.0. i needing to calculate text width and text height when have font size and font name of text.
hopy everybody help me.
thanks very much

[Duthomhas]

http://www.google.com/search?btnI=1&q=msdn+GetTextExtentPoint32
(if you have tabs in the string: http://www.google.com/search?btnI=1&q=msdn+GetTabbedTextExtent )
You need to select the font into a device context (using SelectObject() ).

Click around there for a while and read up on handling fonts in Windows.

Good luck!