http://www.philosophicalgeek.com/2008/04/10/gettextextent-vs-drawtext-with-dt_calcrect/ Code and musings by Ben Watson Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:43:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.philosophicalgeek.com/2008/04/10/gettextextent-vs-drawtext-with-dt_calcrect/comment-page-1/#comment-125629 grant bowgen Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:21:34 +0000 http://www.philosophicalgeek.com/2008/04/10/gettextextent-vs-drawtext-with-dt_calcrect/#comment-125629 I tried using DrawText but it made no difference. However if you select the font first using GetDC->SelectObject(font) for the relevant font, then both GetTextExtent and DrawText work. I tried using DrawText but it made no difference. However if you select the font first using GetDC->SelectObject(font) for the relevant font, then both GetTextExtent and DrawText work.

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