Re: [Dev-C++] text size

[Abhijit S. <mu...@gm...>]

Greets, Carlos.


> I want create a bitmap for hold a text string loaded from a file. I have
> a fixed width, given by the window, but the height depends on the string
> length, but I don't see any function in the win32 reference which could
> be used for achieve it in a simple way. Though in it is claimed that the
> result is width and height GetExtentPoint32 gives the dimensions of the
> string without considering that it will be displayed in multiple lines,
> so it gives a lpsize which has the cx length of all the characters of
> the string and the height of a single line. If I try to work with it in
> the simple ways (cy = cx /window widht * text height) I get a too short

I think this should be

    cy = (cx / window_width + 1) * text_height

since for cx/window_width == 0, there is actually one line already (for
example, 300/400 is 0, but there is one line of width 300 units). You might
also want to have a variable for line spacing.

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