Android Question How to calculate the length of the string?

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chuck3e

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How can this be used to set the length of its view in B4a?

I have text in 2 labels that fit the labels just fine and the text is butted together when a phone is set to large font size but when someone uses small font size the the view width doesn't change to match the small text length and I get a large gap between text1 and text2.
 
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mcqueccu

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[B4X] [XUI] Accurate Text Measurement and Drawing

(It took me 7 years to get this one right.) XUI v1.60 includes a new method named B4XCanvas.MeasureText. This method accurately measures single line strings. It returns a B4XRect object with the width and height of the measured string. The Top field returns the highest point relative to...
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