Re: CDC:TextOut and Plus or Minus Sign

From:
"AliR \(VC++ MVP\)" <alir@online.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.mfc
Date:
Fri, 18 May 2007 18:58:09 -0500
Message-ID:
<m4r3i.957$C96.474@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net>
That shouldn't be the problem. CDC::TextOut eventually calls the TextOut
SDK call.

Write a simple application that all it does is draw the +/- then change the
font, then change the escapment and such. See where it starts to break.

AliR.

"PeterOut" <MajorSetback@excite.com> wrote in message
news:1179529504.615642.92810@q23g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...

On May 18, 6:01 pm, "AliR \(VC++ MVP\)" <A...@online.nospam> wrote:

That should work

What do you get when you run this sample app

http://www.learnstar.com/alir/DrawPlusMinus.exe

AliR.


I think I see my problem. I am writing the text to the window using a
Windows SDK-based library (with #include windows.h). Consequently, I
have to use
BOOL TextOut(
 HDC hdc, // handle to DC
 int nXStart, // x-coordinate of starting position
 int nYStart, // y-coordinate of starting position
 LPCTSTR lpString, // character string
 int cbString // number of characters
);

It does not recognise CString. Maybe I need to make another library
that uses MFC instead.

Thanks,
Peter.

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