pett@socrates.ucsf.edu (Eric Pettersen%CGL) (10/23/88)
I don't know if this has been mentioned before but... stringbbox is hosed two different ways: 1) It doesn't return what it is documented to return. Both Sun and SGI documentation say: (string) stringbbox => lower_left_x lower_left_y width height when in fact it returns upper right x and y instead of width and height. This can be easily worked around by using "stringbbox points2rect" instead of just stringbbox. 2) It doesn't do the right thing when handed a null string: a) [Sun] : () stringbbox => 0 900 0 900 b) [SGI] : () stringbbox => 0 773.6962 0 773.6962 Happy Bug Hunting Eric Pettersen pett@cgl.ucsf.edu ...!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!pett