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Legacy GM "string_width" calculating wrong value?

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Silversea

Guest
Perhaps someone with more experience could explain what is happening here, and how to correct it. I'm assuming it has something to do with spacing of the characters in the font not matching with the actual draw length.

The actual draw width of this text is 153 pixels, but the game says it is 228, which is skewing the line break code.

 
YellowAfterlife

YellowAfterlife

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You are most likely calculating string width prior to setting the desired font via draw_set_font - as one can expect, it uses the whichever font that is currently set to be used for drawing text.
 
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Silversea

Guest
I didn't actually consider setting those variables outside of the draw event, but, now I think about it, that would make a lot of sense. I think that is exactly what is happening. Thanks.
 
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