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Well, this is an auto-reply but in this way it keeps stored for the ones that need to do something like this.

The answer for my need was using the varwidth package, so i put this inside a lrbox environment and then with \usebox{} i can extract the width of the resulting box, the resulting code is ...

Hi, i'm trying to create some personalized color-box using TikZ and PGF. What i want to do is pass the text to the macro and that the color-box calc it's own "text width".

I done this parcially using an lrbox:

\begin{lrbox}{\capbox}\footnotesize#1\end{lrbox}%
\settowidth{\capwidth}{\usebox ...

Where can i find the TexnicCenter 2.0 ?? It's neccesary compile it from the sources? in that case can you share with me the binary version that you had created

Thanks a lot!