How to get a string's width in pixels, not in characters

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Sometimes you may need to know how wide a string is in pixels, e.g. for dynamically generated forms.
This depends of course on the selected font characteristics. Windows and the VLC provide a function TextWidth which is a method of TCanvas:

TCanvas.TextWidth(sString);

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2007-11-02, 04:11:04

anonymous from Brazil

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