Edited gui.text to return a value, the x position where it would paint the next character. This should hopefully allow scripters to place a useful box around the text, perhaps for looks or clicking like it's a button.

changelog.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+06-june-2010 - FatRatKnight - Added a return value to gui.text: The X position where the function would paint the next character.
 02-june-2010 - adelikat - Win32 - Movie Options Dialog - Fix so Full Savestate Load checkbox is updated on load
 
 ---r1984 - FCEUX 2.1.4a Release---

src/lua-engine.cpp

@@ -3794,7 +3794,7 @@ static int JoedCharWidth(uint8 ch)
 	return FCEUFont[FixJoedChar(ch)*8];
 }
 
-void LuaDrawTextTransWH(const char *str, size_t l, int x, int y, uint32 color, uint32 backcolor)
+void LuaDrawTextTransWH(const char *str, size_t l, int &x, int y, uint32 color, uint32 backcolor)
 {
 	int Opac = (color >> 24) & 0xFF;
 	int backOpac = (backcolor >> 24) & 0xFF;
@@ -3893,8 +3893,10 @@ static int gui_text(lua_State *L) {
 	gui_prepare();
 
 	LuaDrawTextTransWH(msg, l, x, y, color, bgcolor);
+
+    lua_pushinteger(L, x);
 #endif
-	return 0;
+	return 1;
 
 }