Re: [ft] Size of space character

[Mickey Gabel]

AlannY wrote:
> Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > > I'm writting a tool which return size (width and height) of glyph
> > > (character). Everything works fine for every character, but not for
> > > space character ;-( How to get size of space?
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > FT_Glyph_Get_CBox (glyph, FT_GLYPH_BBOX_PIXELS, &bbox);
> > That you get a zero CBox is correct -- there is NO outline at all!
> > What do you expect?  A space glyph usually has a non-zero advance
> > width (and height for vertical layout).
> >
> >
> >     Werner
>
> And what can I do? I need a width of space for rendering text...

What I do (after encountering the same issue and talking with Werner) is 
to the advance as the width of a space. It makes the code slightly less 
uniform (need special handling for "empty" glyphs) but it works just 
fine for me.