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<function name="GetTextSize" parent="surface" type="libraryfunc">⤶ <description>Returns the width and height (in pixels) of the given text, but only if the font has been set with <page>surface.SetFont</page>.</description>⤶ <realm>Client and Menu</realm>⤶ <args>⤶ <arg name="text" type="string">The string to check the size of.</arg>⤶ </args>⤶ <rets>⤶ <ret name="" type="number">Width of the provided text</ret>⤶ <ret name="" type="number">Height of the provided text</ret>⤶ </rets>⤶ </function>⤶ ⤶ <example>⤶ <description>Prints out the size of "Hello World" in the Trebuchet24 font.</description>⤶ <code>⤶ surface.SetFont("Trebuchet24")⤶ ⤶ local message = "Hello World"⤶ local width, height = surface.GetTextSize(message)⤶ ⤶ print("Text width: " .. width .. ", text height: " .. height)⤶ </code>⤶ <output>Text width: 100, text height: 24</output>⤶ ⤶ </example>⤶ ⤶ ⤶ ⤶ ⤶ <example>⤶ <description>Get text height very quickly. No tables or spare variables used.</description>⤶ <code>⤶ local message = "Hello World"⤶ ⤶ surface.SetFont("Trebuchet24")⤶ local height = select(2, surface.GetTextSize(message))⤶ ⤶ print(height)⤶ </code>⤶ <output>24</output>⤶ ⤶ </example>

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