From c8007331b058e7540f501c531237cc31d0095383 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christopher Jeffrey <chjjeffrey@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 07:24:25 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] helper.

---
 lib/widget.js          |  4 ++++
 test/widget-autopad.js | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 test/widget-autopad.js

diff --git a/lib/widget.js b/lib/widget.js
index 87a754b..3d93c45 100644
--- a/lib/widget.js
+++ b/lib/widget.js
@@ -8339,6 +8339,10 @@ helpers.parseTags = function(text) {
 
 helpers.generateTags = generateTags;
 
+helpers.textLength = function(text) {
+  return Element.prototype.textLength.call({ options: { tags: true } }, text);
+};
+
 helpers.attrToBinary = function(obj, fg, bg, target) {
   return Element.prototype.sattr.call(target || {}, obj, fg, bg);
 };
diff --git a/test/widget-autopad.js b/test/widget-autopad.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7b1dbcc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/widget-autopad.js
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+var blessed = require('../')
+  , screen;
+
+screen = blessed.screen({
+  dump: __dirname + '/logs/autopad.log',
+  smartCSR: true,
+  autoPadding: true
+});
+
+var box1 = blessed.box({
+  parent: screen,
+  top: 'center',
+  left: 'center',
+  width: 20,
+  height: 10,
+  border: 'line'
+});
+
+var box2 = blessed.box({
+  parent: box1,
+  top: 0,
+  left: 0,
+  width: 10,
+  height: 5,
+  border: 'line'
+});
+
+screen.key('q', function() {
+  return process.exit(0);
+});
+
+screen.render();