Thread: Displaying Text using TextOut() ...

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Originally Posted by csonx_p

1. I'm displaying text on the frame using the function textout ....

Code:

TextOut(hDC, rc.left, rc.top, txt, (int)_tcslen(txt));

The text is boxed in a rectangle with white background.. How do i display text without this rectangle?

You need to use a drawing mode that doesn't draw new background - perhaps the NULL-brush that I told you about before will help [sorry, I don't KNOW as I haven't actually written code that draws text on a non-white background].

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Mats

Originally Posted by csonx_p

What if it's a float, or long... Anywayz, thnx

Seeing as long and int are the same size (in 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows, and I doubt you are interested in backwards compatibility with Windows 3.1 as that would probably cripple your application quite a bit), long is not really a problem.

Floating point (float or double) and 64-bit integers, you'd have to get the text out and then use a standard function (such as strtod() or sscanf()) to get the conversion done.

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Mats

Originally Posted by csonx_p

Here's my solution..

Code:

COLORREF g_rgbBackground = RGB(0xD3,0xD3,0xD3); // Set to grey
SetBkColor(hDC, g_rgbBackground);

Yes, that would work for a solid background. It's a bit more trouble if the background is (for example) an image of unknown colour [e.g. a photo of my family] that we'd draw the text over.

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Mats

WM_GETTEXT and then put it in to a buffer with sprintf , wsprintf....