Re: [Dev-C++] why doesn't this work?

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When you process the WM_CREATE, the window is not yet created, so you 
cannot work with its hdc, at least, it is what it seems to happen. I did 
an experiment like yours and didn't worked, I deleted the code and moved 
to another WM_.

Vlada Djurovic wrote:

>Hi.
>This is suppposed to be simple, but I can't get it to work. All I want to do
>is display some text using TextOut function, but I get only a blank window.
>Here's the code:
>
> HDC hDC;
>        case WM_CREATE:
>        {
>            char str[]="Display text";
>            hDC=GetDC(hwnd);
>            TextOut(hDC,100,100,str,lstrlen(str));
>            ReleaseDC(hwnd,hDC);
>        }
>        break;
>
>What am I doing wrong?
>------------
>Vlada
>
>
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