// 6 april 2015 #include "uipriv_windows.h" intmax_t uiWindowsWindowTextWidth(HWND hwnd) { LRESULT len; WCHAR *text; HDC dc; HFONT prevfont; SIZE size; size.cx = 0; size.cy = 0; // first we need the window text len = SendMessageW(hwnd, WM_GETTEXTLENGTH, 0, 0); if (len == 0) // no text; nothing to do return 0; text = (WCHAR *) uiAlloc((len + 1) * sizeof (WCHAR), "WCHAR[]"); // note the comparison: the size includes the null terminator, but the return does not if (GetWindowText(hwnd, text, len + 1) != len) logLastError("error getting window text in uiWindowsWindowTextWidth()"); // now we can do the calculations dc = GetDC(hwnd); if (dc == NULL) logLastError("error getting DC in uiWindowsWindowTextWidth()"); prevfont = (HFONT) SelectObject(dc, hMessageFont); if (prevfont == NULL) logLastError("error loading control font into device context in uiWindowsWindowTextWidth()"); if (GetTextExtentPoint32W(dc, text, len, &size) == 0) logLastError("error getting text extent point in uiWindowsWindowTextWidth()"); if (SelectObject(dc, prevfont) != hMessageFont) logLastError("error restoring previous font into device context in uiWindowsWindowTextWidth()"); if (ReleaseDC(hwnd, dc) == 0) logLastError("error releasing DC in uiWindowsWindowTextWidth()"); uiFree(text); return size.cx; }