How to retrieve sprite/string size?

[Blizna]

Hi,
to my upcoming commercial product I would need to know how to retrieve height/size of sprites and string..seemed to be trivial but it is not. Especially with string..any way how to do it instead of Len(string)*10 where 10 is average font width? Any extensions for that?
Thanks

[Olivier]

For String objects there is an extension called CalcRect if I remember correctly.

For Active objects you can get the width and height by doing simple subtractions. The coordinate expressions you need are under Retrieve data from an object > Object > Position:

Width = X Right( "Active" )-X Left( "Active" )
Height = Y Bottom( "Active" )-Y Top( "Active" )

[LB]

"Calculate Text Rect object" is the name. I don't recall where to get it, try using ExtensionView by Jaffob.