[Summary] Fixed issue when width request from Cavas text returned old width value

[Reviewed by] Paul Davis

Conflicts:
	libs/canvas/canvas/text.h

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libs/canvas/canvas/text.h b/libs/canvas/canvas/text.h
index a967206e65..ee22a3ecda 100644
--- a/libs/canvas/canvas/text.h
+++ b/libs/canvas/canvas/text.h
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ public:
         void dump (std::ostream&) const;
 
 	std::string text() const { return _text; }
+	double text_width() const;
 
 private:
 	std::string             _text;
diff --git a/libs/canvas/text.cc b/libs/canvas/text.cc
index c1b1c517c8..86d8aa9136 100644
--- a/libs/canvas/text.cc
+++ b/libs/canvas/text.cc
@@ -244,3 +244,14 @@ Text::dump (ostream& o) const
 
 	o << endl;
 }
+
+
+double
+Text::text_width() const
+{
+    if (_need_redraw) {
+        redraw ();
+    }
+    
+    return _width;
+}