Re: text writing in directX

["Brian Holley" <comp_brain@hotmail.com>]

Okay, below I have the function that I use to write to the screen in 
DirectDraw exclusive mode
It takes as arguments:
a string of text or a character buffer to output
the starting (x,y) coordinates
the COLORREF value of the color of the text
and the DirectDraw Surface to write the text to

int DrawGDIText(char *text, int x,int y, COLORREF color, LPDIRECTDRAWSURFACE 
lpdds)
{
	// for COLORREF use the RGB(r,g,b) macro
	HDC xdc; // the working dc

        // Get the device context to draw text
	if (lpdds->GetDC(&xdc)!=DD_OK)
		return(0);

	SetTextColor(xdc,color);

	// set background mode to transparent so black isn't copied
	SetBkMode(xdc, TRANSPARENT);

        // Output text to screen
	TextOut(xdc,x,y,text,strlen(text));

	lpdds->ReleaseDC(xdc);

	return(1);
}


Hope this helps you do what you need to do.

-Brian
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