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    Simple question

    I'm just displaying text using the textout command but i can't remember how to clear the screen of the text produced by the textout command, anyone know?

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    Actually can someone give me a better alternative to useing textout? I just want to have a basic window with writing on the background. I have a menu and when u click one of the options it displays text, but every time you minamize it the text goes away and you can't use the \n command so you need to have many lines of the text out command. Is there a better way to display lots of text other than the textout command?

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    If your only using text then you should look at using one a control. Like a text box or something.

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    ok i'll try that

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    Hey,

    Possibly better would be to use a Static control, then you can just SetWindowText(StaticH, ""); and the text is gone. Or if you want to completly clear the text you can just hide the control using showwindow(). You should be able to fiqure out what you need if you work with edit & static controls for displaying your text.

    Hope that helps,
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    Can someone give me an example of a text box or one of the other controlls that this would work for, i tryed one but i'm getting errors, only doing it from memory and i think i left something out.

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