//from the internets:
internal static int GetWidth(Text Text){
//Make sure its not empty, because this would crash it later otherwise.
if( Text.ToString().Length == 0 )
return 0;
//Temp variables that use the same font and size as the original text.
//This is to get the width of one '#'
Text Temp1 = new Text( "#", Text.Font, Text.CharacterSize );
Text Temp2 = new Text( "# #", Text.Font, Text.CharacterSize );
//Now we can get the width of the whitespace by subtracting the width of 2 '#' from "# #".
int Width = (int)(Temp2.GetGlobalBounds().Width - Temp1.GetGlobalBounds().Width*2);
//The width of the string without taking into consideration for spaces left at the beggining or end.
int TotalWidth = (int)Text.GetGlobalBounds().Width;
//Get the text from the sf::Text as an std::string.
string str = Text.ToString();
//Bool to see if we encounter a string consisting of only spaces.
bool OnlySpaces = false;
//Go through all characters in the string from the start.
for( int i = 0; i < str.Length; i++ )
{
if( str[i] == ' ' )
//Add each space's width to the sum of it all.
TotalWidth += Width;
else
break;
//Check if we have gone through the whole string.
if( i == str.Length -1 )
OnlySpaces = true;
}
//Go through all characters in the string from the end, as long as it wasn't only spaces.
if( !OnlySpaces )
{
for (int i = str.Length - 1; i > 0; i--)
{
if (str[i] == ' ')
//Add each space's width to the sum of it all.
TotalWidth += Width;
else
break;
}
}
return TotalWidth;
}