tkinter text width

[James Stroud]

Thank you to everybody helping me. I think I am almost there...

On Wednesday 27 April 2005 12:10 pm, so sayeth Jeremy Bowers:
> 2. Use a fixed-width font and manually wrap. (It's pretty easy then, you
> can ask the font for how wide any char is and do the math from there.)

How might I query the size of a fixed-width font in pixles? It appears that 
the width of the font in points does not correlate with its width in pixels 
based on some simple expriments I have done. Using cget("font") on the Text 
gives back a string with the point size.

> [snip some things to worry about]
> Basically, I'm pretty sure you can't do this.

My setup is not very complicated, so I don't think I have to worry about 
kerning, unicode, etc.. I am using a fixed width font (courier) only, and 
only one size and am also quite comfortable with giving away several pixels 
at the end of a line for "rounding errors" and will filter for a limited 
alphabet consisting only of the numbers, the captial letters, and the space.

I think I can do this given these limitations.

James

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