Dx - Getting text length

[Mefisto_PL]

Hi everyone, I have a question.. How to get dxtext length? I need to create dxDrawRectangle under mapname in Race gamemode, but this text is created by library, so how to make it?

mapdisplay = dxText:create('Map: none', 2, screenHeight - dxGetFontHeight(0.7, 'bankgothic')/2, false, 'bankgothic', 0.7, 'left') 

[.:HyPeX:.]

ehm, normally you are creating the text so you should know it yourself

EDIT:

  
local lala= string.find(mapdisplay, %a) 
local saca = #lala 
outputchatBox("total leters: '".. saca .."' !", source) 
  

PD: check under patterns section to modify the %a: http://www.gammon.com.au/scripts/doc.ph ... tring.find

[Dealman]

dxGetTextWidth

[Mefisto_PL]

Don't working.

        dxDrawRectangle ( 2, screenHeight - dxGetFontHeight(0.7, 'bankgothic')/2, dxGetTextWidth(mapdisplay), y/2, tocolor ( 0, 0, 0, 150 ) ) 
        g_dxGUI = { 
            ranknum = dxText:create('1', screenWidth - 60, screenHeight - 95, false, 'bankgothic', 2, 'right'), 
            ranksuffix = dxText:create('st', screenWidth - 40, screenHeight - 86, false, 'bankgothic', 1), 
            checkpoint = dxText:create('0/0', screenWidth - 15, screenHeight - 54, false, 'bankgothic', 0.8, 'right'), 
            timepassed = dxText:create('0:00:00', screenWidth - 10, screenHeight - 25, false, 'bankgothic', 0.7, 'right'), 
            mapdisplay = dxText:create('Map: none', 2, screenHeight - dxGetFontHeight(0.7, 'bankgothic')/2, false, 'bankgothic', 0.7, 'left') 
        }