Get the world coordinate of a character in a text/element

[BenjiDev]

Hi

Given the nth character in a text element, is it possible to easily get that characters position in world coordinates?

It could probably be calculated from a combination of API_TextType, API_ParagraphType and maybe API_FontType but it would be tricky to cover every case. Is there an easy way to do it? I could not find anything readily available in the API documentation. 

[BerndSchwarzenbacher · Accepted solution]

Hi Benji,

I don't know of any readily available function. I only found ACAPI_Element_GetTextLineLength. With that it might be worth a try to get the line length of the substring ending just before the character you are interested in. That could at least simplify that part.

Hope that helps,
Bernd

[BenjiDev]

Ah, surely will be useful for what I'm trying to do, thanks Bern!