glutBitmapWidth

returns the width/length of a bitmap character/string.

Signature

glutBitmapLength( const( string ) )-> int
glutBitmapLength( font , string ) -> <class 'ctypes.c_int'> 
glutBitmapLength( c_void_p(font), POINTER(c_ubyte)(string) ) -> c_int
glutBitmapWidth( int( character ) )-> int
glutBitmapWidth( font , character ) -> <class 'ctypes.c_int'> 
glutBitmapWidth( c_void_p(font), c_int(character) ) -> c_int

Parameters

VariablesDescription
font
Bitmap font to use. For valid values, see the glutBitmapCharacter description.
character
Character to return width of (not confined to 8 bits).
string
Text string (8-bit characters), nul terminated.

Description

glutBitmapWidth returns the width in pixels of a bitmap character in a supported bitmap font. While the width of characters in a font may vary (though fixed width fonts do not vary), the maximum height characteristics of a particular font are fixed.
glutBitmapLength returns the length in pixels of a string (8-bit characters). This length is equivalent to summing all the widths returned by glutBitmapWidth for each character in the string.

See Also

glutBitmapCharacter glutStrokeWidth

Sample Code References

The following code samples have been found which appear to reference the functions described here. Take care that the code may be old, broken or not even use PyOpenGL.

glutBitmapWidth
OpenGLContext OpenGLContext/scenegraph/text/glutfont.py Lines: 30
{LGPL} PyUI2 renderers/openglGlut.py Lines: 244
{LGPL} PyUI2 system/openglgraphics.py Lines: 258

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