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How would I scale a text label dependant on string size?
I'm currently making a custom chat for use in my game. Only problem for me is I want the players name text label and chat tag text label to scale dependant on the string.len() function. Is their any way to possibly make this happen?
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Don't use string.len, because some characters are different sizes, so we can't just assume they're all the same. Thankfully, roblox calculates these sizes for us and gives us a method to get those sizes. To get the length of a string in pixels, you use TextService:GetTextSize
Here's very roughly how you would implement this in your code:
local TextService = game:GetService("TextService")
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local Size = TextService:GetTextSize(message,fontSize,font,chatFrameSize)
ChatMessageObject.Size = UDim2.new(0,Size.x,0,Size.y) --Sets width and height in pixels
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I'll have to give it a try MrCatDoggo 213 — 4y