OpenEuphoria

Re: EzCreateFont failure

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Aug 27, 2004
• 537 views

Jonas Temple wrote:
> 
> Derek Parnell wrote:
> > 
> > Now that I'm using a DrawText wrapper that works and I've fixed
> > a minor bug in your code, it runs just great! No failures in
> > EzCreateFont() at all.
> > 
> > Please try it using the current win32lib and not your DrawText
> > routine.
> > 
> Okay, I'll give it a shot.  One question...does your drawText return the 
> dimensions of the text that was drawn or attempted to be drawn?  In my 
> app I call drawtext without actually printing the text to see if it will
> fit on the page (end of page thing).

Yes the Win32lib drawText() does return the rectangle used. Its not
documented though (sorry). I ran your app using the win32lib version
and it works just fine.

And naturally enough, I've updated the docs now too.

-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia