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Writing Text in Win32 GUI

Writing Text in Win32 GUI

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dwayne

22 Aug, 2008 - 12:48 PM

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I basically need to write text out to the white space in an empty window. I am attempting to use "TextOut" at the moment but get so many errors... I am new to GUI Programming, especially windows GUI design. Here is the code, for the time I am attempting to write a short string to the window though in my actual app I need to write various strings from the same variable (so I preferable should not be constant). My app was originally designed a console application though I made sure it could be easily redone into a GUI app later.

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LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND hWnd, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
	int wmId, wmEvent;
	PAINTSTRUCT ps;
	HDC hdc;
	int nXStart;
	nXStart= 5;       // x-coordinate of starting position
	int nYStart;
	nYStart= 10;       // y-coordinate of starting position
	LPCWSTR lpString = "Random String";  // character string
	int cbString;
	cbString = 15;      // number of characters

	switch (message)
	{
	case WM_COMMAND:
		wmId    = LOWORD(wParam);
		wmEvent = HIWORD(wParam);
		// Parse the menu selections:
		switch (wmId)
		{
		case IDM_ABOUT:
			DialogBox(hInst, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDD_ABOUTBOX), hWnd, About);
			break;
		case IDM_EXIT:
			DestroyWindow(hWnd);
			break;
		default:
			return DefWindowProc(hWnd, message, wParam, lParam);
		}
		break;
	case WM_PAINT:
		hdc = BeginPaint(hWnd, &ps);
		// TODO: Add any drawing code here...
		TextOut(hdc, nXStart, nYStart, lpString, cbString);
		EndPaint(hWnd, &ps);
		break;
	case WM_DESTROY:
		PostQuitMessage(0);
		break;
	default:
		return DefWindowProc(hWnd, message, wParam, lParam);
	}
	return 0;
}

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perfectly.insane	22 Aug, 2008 - 02:55 PM Post #2
D.I.C Addict Joined: 22 Mar, 2008 Posts: 557 Thanked 46 times Dream Kudos: 25 Expert In: C/C++ My Contributions	I noticed this line: cpp LPCWSTR lpString = "Random String"; // character string LPCWSTR is essentially defined to be const wchar_t* (or perhaps something else with the same result). You could give a wchar_t* literal, by using the L prefix: LPCWSTR lpString = L"Random String"; However, this is not the recommended way of doing it. It's usually better to do: LPCTSTR lpString = _T("Random String"); (Make sure tchar.h is included). This is because there's a seperate API for char* strings and for wchar_t* strings (UTF-16LE). Writing your code like this will allow you to compile your program to use char* or wchar_t* just by defining or undefining a preprocessor symbol. If you look up the definition of TextOut on MSDN, you'll notice that it takes in a LPCTSTR parameter, so you don't need to change anything about the call to take advantage of this. Also, your string is not 15 characters, but 13. I know that this is a test program, but you can free yourself from having to manually calculate the string length... Instead of the above, do something more like this: cpp TCHAR lpString[] = _T("Random String"); // Subtracting 1 for the null terminator int cbString = (sizeof(lpString) / sizeof(lpString[0])) - 1; That's all for now.
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dwayne	22 Aug, 2008 - 04:46 PM Post #3
New D.I.C Head Joined: 2 Aug, 2008 Posts: 39 My Contributions	Thank you. Thanks to you I still have hair (i.e. I didn't pull it all out).
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