Chat message text question?

So I've created my own chat, and i'm currently using textbounds to position the messages to the right of the sender text.

However, I do not find this efficient because i'd have to limit the message by a lot of characters.

I'm wondering if its possible to calculate the amount of spaces needed before the message text and use it that way.

Example:

Sender will be player1. Sender's message will be hello.

I want to know how it would be possible to make the message like this:

"         hello"

the spaces at the left of 'hello' are the spaces which would allow room for the sender's text. It should like this:

player1: hello.

Any possible way to do this? Thanks

Edited the answer. Now when I believe I understand your question, my answer is this:

http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=API:Class/GuiBase2d/AbsoluteSize

You could use that.

messageGui = nil
playernameGui = nil

messageGui.Position = playernameGui.Position + UDim2.new(0,tostring(playernameGui.AbsoluteSize):sub(1,tostring(playernameGui.AbsoluteSize):find", "-1))