jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) (03/22/91)
A program that I am writing lets you create a special kind of diagram that is very maze like but everything is described using a letter...e.g. AAAAAACAAAABBBBB AAAACCCAAAABAAAB AAAACAAAAAABBABB AAAAAAAAAABBBBAA Now, the problem is that when I do a TextOut or a DrawText, the letters do not align themselves correctly vertically because of the fonts. This becoming a very important issue...is there a way to make the characters line up (assign 8x8 bit maps to everything?).... Anything to solve this problem would be appreciated, Brian
curt@cctb.wa.com (Curt Johnson) (03/23/91)
In article <27561@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes: | Now, the problem is that when I do a TextOut or a DrawText, the letters do | not align themselves correctly vertically because of the fonts. This | becoming a very important issue...is there a way to make the characters | line up (assign 8x8 bit maps to everything?).... You want to use a font with fixed spacing. Try: SelectObject(hdc, GetStockObject(OEM_FIXED_FONT)); // or SYSTEM_FIXED_FONT or ANSI_FIXED_FONT For more information, see the Petzold book, pages 654-655. Curt Johnson == curt@cctb.wa.com
LIBCRN@BYUVM.BITNET (03/25/91)
In article <27561@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes: >| Now, the problem is that when I do a TextOut or a DrawText, the letters do >| not align themselves correctly vertically because of the fonts. This >| becoming a very important issue...is there a way to make the characters >| line up (assign 8x8 bit maps to everything?).... >You want to use a font with fixed spacing. >Try: >SelectObject(hdc, GetStockObject(OEM_FIXED_FONT)); // or SYSTEM_FIXED_FONT or >ANSI_FIXED_FONT >For more information, see the Petzold book, pages 654-655. >Curt Johnson == curt@cctb.wa.com There is another solution. Instead of using a fixed font, split your output strings into a number of fields (each collumn should be a seperate field). Then when you draw the string on the screen, instead of calling TextOut() once for the entire string, you call it a number of times (as many times as you have collumns). Each time that you call TextOut(), you supply it with the part of the output string which corresponds with the collumn you are drawing at that time. It takes a little more work, but if you do it this way, you can still use proportional fonts instead of those ugly fixed fonts. --Cory (libcrn@byuvm.bitnet)
curt@cctb.wa.com (Curt Johnson) (03/29/91)
In article <91084.073252LIBCRN@BYUVM.BITNET> LIBCRN@BYUVM.BITNET writes: | In article <27561@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) | writes: | >| Now, the problem is that when I do a TextOut or a DrawText, the letters do | >| not align themselves correctly vertically because of the fonts. This | >| becoming a very important issue...is there a way to make the characters | >| line up (assign 8x8 bit maps to everything?).... | | >You want to use a font with fixed spacing. | | There is another solution. Instead of using a fixed font, split your | output strings into a number of fields (each collumn should be a seperate | field). Then when you draw the string on the screen, instead of calling | TextOut() once for the entire string, you call it a number of times (as | many times as you have collumns). Each time that you call TextOut(), you | supply it with the part of the output string which corresponds with the | collumn you are drawing at that time. It takes a little more work, but if | you do it this way, you can still use proportional fonts instead of those | ugly fixed fonts. If I remember correctly, the specific problem Brian was solve was printing a two-dimensional map of something using characters (i.e. each column is one character wide). For a case like this I think the visual appearance of the fixed fonts is fine. Curt Johnson == curt@cctb.wa.com