Does anybody Know how to achieve the width of a symbol?

[VvierA]

Hello again,

this forum is really great. I hope I may ask another question.

I made a 2d path plugin object with an embedded symbol.

Now I try to generate control points for the 4 corners of the symbol.

The symbol varies in size so I thought I have to retrieve the width and height of the symbol via Vectorscript.

I tried: widthVAR := width(S=symbolnameSTR) but it doesn't work.

Maybe there is another way to retrieve (calculate) the x/y coordinates of the corners of the bounding box of the embedded symbol?

Or maybe there is an even more simple way to place control points in the corners of an embedded symbol?

Thank you for tips and hints,

VvierA

[Matt Panzer]

Hi VvierA,

Have you tried: GetBBox( objHand, topLeft.x, topLeft.y, botRight.x, botRight.y );

[VvierA]

Hi Matt,

thank you very much. Looks promising. I'll try that.

VVierA