How do I get text.height when created off screen?

For example:

On Start of layout, create text (-100,-100), set text "300 characters and newline and 300 characters"

PROBLEM, Set text.height to text.TEXTHEIGHT renders as text.height = 10, in reality it is 100.

If rendered on screen (0,0) for example, it works properly.

Is there away around this other than creating on screen and moving it to the correct location?

Text object is not rendered if it's fully off-screen, or invisible or has opacity=0. So if you need to access TextHeight and TextWidth properties, at least a small portion of it needs to be on screen and visible.

FYI, this is fixed in the C3 runtime.