Resize text members

["mikem75" <webforumsuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello - I am attempting to put text members on top of buttons at run time in a 
kiosk application I'm building.  The concept is I call a database, grab a 
number of names and place them on buttons.  The problem is the names are all of 
various lengths which makes some of the names too large for the buttons. I 
would like to test for the width of the text (given that different fonts have 
different kearning tables).  Once I know the width of the text I can then 
adjust the character spacing or fontsize of the text to ensure it fits within 
the button.

 Does anyone know how to test for the width of text members.  There is a .width 
property, but that doesn't seem to give me what I need.  I've tested that and 
all the results are the same for members which are quite different in the 
number of characters and the width on the buttons.