---
name: "glutStrokeWidth"
section: "3xglut"
platform: "linux"
package: "glut-doc"
version: "3.7-14"
release: "Debian 3.0 (Woody)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/glutStrokeWidth/3xglut"
---

# glutStrokeWidth(3xglut)

## NAME

glutStrokeWidth returns the width of a stroke character, glutStrokeLength returns the length of a stroke font string.

## SYNTAX

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int glutStrokeWidth(void \*font, int character); int glutStrokeLength(void \*font, const unsigned char \*string);

## ARGUMENTS

- *font*

  Stroke font to use.  For valid values, see the glutStrokeWidth description.

- *character*

  Character to return width of (not confined to 8 bits).

- *string*

  Text string (8-bit characters), nul terminated.

## DESCRIPTION

glutStrokeWidth returns the width in modeling units of a stroke character in a supported stroke font. While the width of characters in a font may vary (though fixed width fonts do not vary), the maximum height characteristics of a particular font are fixed.

glutStrokeLength returns the length in modeling units of a string (8-bit characters).  This length is equivalent to summing all the widths returned by glutStrokeWidth for each character in the string.

## SEE ALSO

glutStrokeCharacter, glutBitmapWidth

## AUTHOR

Mark J. Kilgard (mjk@nvidia.com)