Width of tooltip text

[MaddDogg]

Hi!

Now it's time for a problem from my side, again

I'm currently working on a system, in which the user should be able to see tooltips while hovering certain elements on the screen.

I would like to draw this tooltip with a dx rectangle and a dx text on top of it.

My problem at this point is that I can't predict the size (the width) of the text, since it's not monospaced.

What would be now the best approach to get a decent width for my rectangle?

I could just set a fixed width for every character, as if it were monospaced, and say "for 30 chars I will have a width of 30 * 5px * font scale", but this might be off by a lot, when many "thin" characters like 'i' or 'l' are used.

Any ideas?

Thanks for any help!

Madd

[50p]

https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/DxGetTextWidth

https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/DxGetFontHeight

[MaddDogg]

Wtf.. why didn't I see this before?

Thanks and sorry for the inconvenience.