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Centering Blted Text - seraphelic - 05-04-2008
In my journey to center text, I ran across a gdi32 api call dubbed GetTextExtentPoint which measures dimensions of specified text in hdc. The only problem is, I get a "User-Defined Type Not Defined" when adding the function:
Code:
Public Declare Function GetTextExtentPoint Lib "gdi32" Alias "GetTextExtentPointA" (ByVal hDC As Integer, ByVal lpszString As String, ByVal cbString As Integer, ByRef lpSize As Size) As IntegerEven better, if you have a operable center solution, pm me
Thanks in advance!
Re: Centering Blted Text - seraphelic - 05-04-2008
Thanks, I got it working. Only problem is, the size is way off!! :[ What's going on?
Took a screenie of mirage. a 31px name was reported as 43px. a 30px name was reported as 37px. Any help?
Re: Centering Blted Text - seraphelic - 06-04-2008
Good point, but both words described had 6 letters. In paint, the difference in the words' pixel width was 1; the buffer should be constant im guessing, or else there would be no way to measure width with this method. So making these assumptions, I cannot fathom why the names "Jables" and "tester" would come out with a 6 pixel difference using this function >.>
If anyone has a working system, please help. If there's another method give me a hint, I like figuring things out on my own (if theyre in my capacity).
Re: Centering Blted Text - seraphelic - 06-04-2008
But I heart verdana :[. There has to be another way.. Guess Im back to google.
Re: Centering Blted Text - Robin - 06-04-2008
Just create a .bmp file with the verdana font in it using monospacing.
Re: Centering Blted Text - seraphelic - 09-04-2008
So I actually got GetTextExtentPoint32 to work in a seperate project, and I think I figured out the problem. For some reason the GAME_SIZE has to be an extra 5 to display the correct size. If someone doesn't already have a fix for this, I'm going to redo the dx text system because it SUCKS.
Re: Centering Blted Text - Robin - 09-04-2008
Hey, blame DX7 not us ;DD
Drawing text directly sucks on all version of DX I've used.