From: Chris Alfeld <chris.alfeld@...>
Date: 2006-03-29T23:59:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Get the size in pixels for a string

This is undoubtedly overkill, but:

require 'tk'

f = TkFont.new('Courier 10')
width = f.measure("Hi There!")
height = f.metrics.assoc('linespace')[1]