Introduced in the 1995 ANSI M[UMPS] Windowing Application Programmer's Interface standard.
This function returns a value that indicates how much space it takes to reproduce a string in a specific font.
SET TXT="This text needs to be printed."
SET F="COURIER",N="NORMAL",PT="POINT"
| Reference | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| $WTWIDTH(TXT,C,12,N,PT) | 196 |
This means that it will take a space of 196 points to display the string that is stored in TXT.
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the title "M[UMPS] by Example" (ISBN 0-918118-42-5).
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